“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, "This isn't the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don't imagine this is all there is.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
“Oh Ellie, doesn’t it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.”
― John Marsden, quote from A Killing Frost
John Marsden
Born place: in Australia
Born date September 27, 1950
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“He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it”
― Kate Carlisle, quote from Homicide in Hardcover
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
― Christopher Hitchens, quote from Hitch-22: A Memoir
“The stupid things you do in life are the most beautiful.”
― Brigid Pasulka, quote from A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.1 Emerson”
― quote from Discover the Power Within You
“Don't differentiate routine names solely by number. One developer wrote all his code in one big function. Then he took every 15 lines and created functions named Part1, Part2, and so on. After that, he created one high-level function that called each part.”
― quote from Code Complete
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