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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

  John Marsden

  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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• Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matter what it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheap and you can’t live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you’ve paid it, that’s what I reckon.

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  Pay The Price, Cost, Proud

  John Marsden (1996). “Darkness, Be My Friend”

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• I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.

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  Beer, White, Sky

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• When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

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  Fall, Thinking, Giving

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

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  Firsts, Walks, Humans

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

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  Dark, Yelling, Dancing

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, 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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• 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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• I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

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  Father, Son, Looks

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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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• Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

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  School, Play, Dumb

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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