The Other Side of Dawn Quotes

“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“Life’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 poverty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness.…That’s the best way I can lead a life I can be proud to call my own.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“I knew then the answer to my question; the question I’d asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be able to forget it? And I knew now that the answer was simple.

Never. I never would. Some things end. But war never does.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“A vida é muito mais do que ser feliz. É sentir um monte de coisas: felicidade, tristeza, raiva, arrependimento, amor, ódio. Se a gente tenta não sentir uma só dessas coisas, acaba bloqueando todas as outras. Não quero ser feliz. Sei que não vou ser feliz para sempre. Quero mais do que isso, algo muito melhor. Quero conhecer a beleza e a feiura. Ver tudo, conhecer tudo, entender tudo. A riqueza e a pobreza, a alegria e a crueldade, a delicadeza e a melancolia.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side of Dawn

“It’s like the future is a building you put up on the foundations of the past.”
― John Marsden, The Other Side Of Dawn

“no enemy too smart or too strong”
― John Marsden, The Other Side Of Dawn