A Killing Frost
John Marsden
Top 10 Best 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.”
“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”
“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”
“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.”
“I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.”
“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.”
“Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.”
“Blame it on Peer Pressure.”
“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.”
“We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.”
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power, nature, survival, god, spirituality, spirit, loneliness, sky, feelings, mountains, imagination, calm, memory, freedom, mind
