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Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
John Marsden
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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.
John Marsden
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
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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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Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
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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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Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.
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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.
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At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
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Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
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Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
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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.
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Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.
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Blame it on Peer Pressure.
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The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
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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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I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.
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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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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
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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
