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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.

  John Marsden

  Beach, Twilight, Tree

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

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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.

  John Marsden

  Fall, Thinking, Giving

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

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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.

  John Marsden

  Beer, White, Sky

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• Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, Feelings, Too Much

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

  John Marsden

  Dark, Yelling, Dancing

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Alive, Staying Alive

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