Maureen Johnson Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

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  Want, Unison, What You Want

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

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• My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

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  Dream, Finals, Sticks

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• I'm the last of the mad ones.

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  Mad, Lasts

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.196, Penguin

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• I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

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  Sports, Running, Jumping

  Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, Book 2)”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.

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  Kissing, Giving, Forever

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• Salt. Wound. Together at last.

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  Together, Lasts, Salt

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• I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

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  Lying, Boys, Doors

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• Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

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  Breakup, Rainbow, Guy

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• Do you ever sing in the car?" "Generally not. But I am driving a police car." "I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic." "You can talk for a long time about nothing." "I certainly can, you charming man!

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  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

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  Ideas, Iron, Trying

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• Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

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  Awkward

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• I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

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  Sorry, Rain, Bothering You

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• This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

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  Believe, England, Natural

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• Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.

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  Hair, Ongoing, Caves

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