Margi Mellsop

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”
― John Marsden

“People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night