If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
John MarsdenWell, Iโve learnt this much: it doesnโt matter what it costs, itโs worth paying the price. You canโt live cheap and you canโt live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud youโve paid it, thatโs what I reckon.
John MarsdenWe had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.
John MarsdenLight 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 convictโs uniform.
John Marsden