Maureen Johnson Quotes - Page 4

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• One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?" "No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too." "I'll take that as a yes," I said.

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  Thinking, Brave, Should

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• It's us," Stephen said. "Oh, thank God," said a voice. Callum emerged from behind the Dumpster. Even with all that was going on, it was hard not to take notice of this: he wore only his underpants and his socks and shoes. ...I don't think I hid my staring very well either. "Go ahead and change," Stephen said, handing me the bag. "I'll go and get the car." "Please be quick," Callum added. "This is not as fun as it appears.

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  Fun, Thinking, Shoes

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• I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. "Where did you get this?" Boo asked. "It's Callum's," he said. "What's he wearing?" "At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on." I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.

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  Book, Police, Bags

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• A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

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  Sex, Profound, Curls

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• All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

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  Men, Leaving, Tea

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• No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

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  Home, People, News

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.156, Penguin

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• What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

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  Night, Men, Long

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.138, Penguin

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• Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.

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  Married, Reason, Spots

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• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

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  Wall, Numbers, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

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  Pork, Records, Sausage

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.123, Penguin

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• My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

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  Hate, Finding Yourself, Quitting

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• I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

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  Reality, Long, Enough

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.41, Penguin

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• Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

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  Wrestling, Animal, Leisure Activities

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.16, Penguin

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• And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

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  People, Assuming, Claims

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.66, Penguin

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• Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

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  Cat, Brooks, Lecturing

  Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Key To The Golden Firebird”, p.30, Hot Key Books

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• This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.

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  School, Aunt, People

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• I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.

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  Air, Guy, Scary

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• I am a mass of contradictions.

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  Contradiction, Mass

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• They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

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  Together, Normal, Enough

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• And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.

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  Faces, Roommate, Lit

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.52, Penguin

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• Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

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  Gone, Jack The Ripper

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.14, Penguin

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• It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.

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  Dirty, Moving, Ideas

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• Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.

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  Horse, School, Games

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• She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.

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  Eye, Views, Water

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• We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

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  Men, Garden, Serial Killer

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