Maureen Johnson Quotes - Page 6

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• Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.

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  Phones, Water, Mermaid

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.71, Penguin

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• It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

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  Real, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

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  Wanted, Position

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• I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

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  Rose, Irrational, Rational

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• Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

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  Boys, Shy, Strange

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• I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

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  Sight, Parent, Flying

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• There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

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  Cheerleader, Situation, Hyper

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.28, Penguin

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• You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.

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  Gay, Guy

  Maureen Johnson (2010). “Suite Scarlett”, p.201, Scholastic Inc.

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• i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

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  Pain, Giving, Missing

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• Her kung fu is that powerful.

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  Powerful, Kung Fu

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• Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.

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  Artist, Signatures, World

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

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  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

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  Attitude, Self, Long

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.22, Penguin

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• You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

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  Sound, Hunters, Demon

  Maureen Johnson (2006). “Devilish”

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• These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

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  Cat, House, Lines

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.69, Penguin

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• Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

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  Attention, Pay, Complicated

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.165, Penguin

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• Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

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  Unison, Said, Impressive

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

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• It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

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  Morning

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.102, Penguin

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• I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

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  Weekend, People, Tradition

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.45, Penguin

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• The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

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  Hockey, Fighting, Winning

  "The Name of the Star (The Shades of London)". Book by Maureen Johnson, September 29, 2011.

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• I am a mass of contradictions.

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  Contradiction, Mass

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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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• 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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• Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.

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  Mean, Shoes, Issues

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Last Little Blue Envelope”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

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  Doors, Wizards, Next

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.44, Penguin

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