“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.”John Marsden Source: The Dead of Night
“All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War BeganSource: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War BeganSource: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.Instead I had Hell.”John Marsden Source: Darkness, Be My Friend