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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

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  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

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  Silence, Sometimes, Prison

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• Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if you would one day melt. I thought that ice would melt with warmth, But there were thing I did not know: The sun can touch the outer layers But does not reach the deepest snow. Winter sometimes seems like years, Summer's sometimes far away, But winter always turns to summer, As surely as does night to day.

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  Summer, Winter, Night

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• I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

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  Thinking, Superwoman, Wanted

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.

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  Memories, Real, Dark

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• Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

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  Doe, Way, Guts

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Block

  John Marsden (2013). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

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  Sixty Minutes, Significant, Episodes

  John Marsden (2000). “Marsden on Marsden”, p.26, Pan Australia

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• Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

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  Memories, Fall, Sometimes

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

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  Thinking, Mind, Shows

  John Marsden (1999). “Darkness Be My Friend”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.

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  Mean, Together, Dollars

  John Marsden (2002). “The Other Side of Dawn”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

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  Names, Black, Three

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

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  Teacher, Kids, Hands

  John Marsden (1999). “Darkness Be My Friend”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Too Much

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

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  News, World, Littles

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

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  Safe, Fantasy, Bigs

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

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  Stranger, Invaders

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Feelings

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

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  Pressure, Peer Pressure, Peers

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

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  Dream, Alive, Staying Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Tired, Past, Knees

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

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  Writing, Heart, Mean

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

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  Dog, Teenager, Sleep

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  School, Names, People

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• Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

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  Beach, Twilight, Tree

  John Marsden (1998). “Everything I Know About Writing”, p.111, Pan Australia

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