Tomorrow, When the War Began
John Marsden
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”
“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.”
“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”
“Why did people call it Hell?" I wondered. [...] No place was Hell, no place could be Hell. It's the people calling it Hell, that's the only thing that made it so. People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly anymore. [...] No, Hell wasn't anything to do with place, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”
“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.”
“People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.”
“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.”
“Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.”
“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.”
“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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Book Keywords:
safety, humor, bible, fantasy, science-fiction, heroes, adolescence
