Tomorrow When the War Began Quotes
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN
USEFUL QUOTES
THEME:
“Writing it down is important to us…recording what we’ve done, in words, on paper, it’s got to be our way of telling ourselves that we mean something, that we matter. That the things we’ve done have made a difference.”
“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. Even Hell was not immune.”
“Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”
“I still couldn’t comprehend that this might be a matter of life and death, that this was the most serious thing I’d ever been involved in.”
“That was the first moment at which I started to realise what true courage was. Up until then, everything had been unreal, like a night-stalking game at a school camp. To come out of the darkness now would be to show courage of a type that ‘’d never had to show before, never even known about. I had to search my own mind and body to find if there was a new part of me somewhere.”
“At that moment I stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming someone else, a more complicated capable person, a force to be reckoned with even, not just a polite obedient kid.”
“This was the new reality of our lives. I got the shakes a bit, but there was no time for that.”
“This is war now and normal rules don’t apply. These people have invaded our land, locked up our families…The moment they left their country to come here they knew what they were doing. They’re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us.”
“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. Now we know we’re not, and like you said, we’ll never feel safe again, and so it’s bye-bye innocence. It’s been nice knowing you but you’re gone now.”
JUSTIFICATION
“We’ve got all this land and all these resources, and yet there’s countries a crow’s spit away that have people packed in like battery hens. You can’t
USEFUL QUOTES
THEME:
“Writing it down is important to us…recording what we’ve done, in words, on paper, it’s got to be our way of telling ourselves that we mean something, that we matter. That the things we’ve done have made a difference.”
“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. Even Hell was not immune.”
“Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”
“I still couldn’t comprehend that this might be a matter of life and death, that this was the most serious thing I’d ever been involved in.”
“That was the first moment at which I started to realise what true courage was. Up until then, everything had been unreal, like a night-stalking game at a school camp. To come out of the darkness now would be to show courage of a type that ‘’d never had to show before, never even known about. I had to search my own mind and body to find if there was a new part of me somewhere.”
“At that moment I stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming someone else, a more complicated capable person, a force to be reckoned with even, not just a polite obedient kid.”
“This was the new reality of our lives. I got the shakes a bit, but there was no time for that.”
“This is war now and normal rules don’t apply. These people have invaded our land, locked up our families…The moment they left their country to come here they knew what they were doing. They’re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us.”
“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. Now we know we’re not, and like you said, we’ll never feel safe again, and so it’s bye-bye innocence. It’s been nice knowing you but you’re gone now.”
JUSTIFICATION
“We’ve got all this land and all these resources, and yet there’s countries a crow’s spit away that have people packed in like battery hens. You can’t