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John Marsden é um escritor australiano, professor e diretor de escola. Marsden teve suas obras traduzidas para onze línguas e é um dos escritores mais aclamados da Austrália. É o autor da série Amanhã. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Setembro 1950  •  Outros nomes جان مارشدن
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John Marsden: Frases em inglês

“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“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.”

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John Marsden

Fonte: The Dead of Night

“All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“What'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.”

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Fonte: The Dead of Night

“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.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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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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“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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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.”

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Fonte: A Killing Frost

“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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Fonte: A Killing Frost

“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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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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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.”

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Fonte: The Dead of Night

“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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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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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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Fonte: A Killing Frost

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.”

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Fonte: The Dead of Night

“Name three types of olives."

"Olives! I wouldn't know one type!"

"Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“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.”

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Fonte: Darkness, Be My Friend

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

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Fonte: Darkness, Be My Friend

“How funny are dogs?”

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John Marsden livro Tomorrow, When the War Began

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“My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

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John Marsden

Fonte: The Dead of Night