Maureen Johnson Quotes - Page 6

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• Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

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  Years, Filthy, Five Year Olds

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.67, Penguin

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• Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.

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  Mean, Cake, Size

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.52, Penguin

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• When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.

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  Eye, House, Six

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• She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All

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  Airports, Doors, Trying

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• She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.

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  Gay

  Maureen Johnson (2005). “The Bermudez Triangle”, p.52, Penguin

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• Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

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  Supposed To Be

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• She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.

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  Animal, Car, Mind

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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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• 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 guess life is full of maybes.

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  Life Is

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• It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

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  Daughter, Jumping, Cnn

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

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  Mother, Gratitude, Devotion

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.50, Penguin

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• We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

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  Giving, Choices, Doe

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• It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding "...future child-bride of my only son.

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  Children, Son, Giving

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.68, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• Her kung fu is that powerful.

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  Powerful, Kung Fu

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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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• because talent alone doesn't make an artist

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  Artist, Talent

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• She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

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  Home, College, People

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Last Little Blue Envelope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

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  Eggs, Hens, Enough

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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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