John Marsden Inspirational Quotes (33)

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

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

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

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.

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.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.