At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
John MarsdenWhat's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
John MarsdenLife's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.
John Marsden...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: โWeโll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!โ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.
John Marsden