A Killing Frost Quotes

“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.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“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.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, "This isn't the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don't imagine this is all there is.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Blame it on Peer Pressure.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“So, am I a genius?”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“It might have made us feel good but the risk wasn't worth it.

Perhaps that, more than anything else, showed how much we'd changed. We'd toughened to such an extent that we chose not to ask about the welfare of our families if it meant any possibility of danger to ourselves.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“The weeks of hiding, and the depressions that we'd been through, had taken the edge off our fitness.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“There was the fear of doing something and the fear of not doing enough. The fears battled each other all the time.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“But we were obviously in more trouble than a dog in a mosque.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Oh Ellie, doesn’t it make your mouth water?"

"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost