Jacquelyn Lear > Jacquelyn's Quotes

“In this life of froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“And that’s the weirdest thing about being someone’s parent. Not just a bank robber parent, but any parent: that you are loved in spite of everything that you are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People