Maureen Johnson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
We study there a lot because ... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people.
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.
Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.
Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.
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!
A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
"It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
"It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.
And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
Charlotte had been beaten over the head with a lamp by an invisible man. I was prepared to give her a pass.
It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!
Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.
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.
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
The expression is: a boy's best friend is his mother. It's not: a boy's best pimp is his mother. It is that way for a reason.
You want to go back to my house the long way?" he asked.
"Or the shortcut? You have to be cold-"
"Long way," I replied. "The long way, for sure.
"Or the shortcut? You have to be cold-"
"Long way," I replied. "The long way, for sure.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
The best part, without any question, was the tie. I've always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.
I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.
Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.
This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet ... yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
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.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.
People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.
You're not weird in the head.' 'There's a giant talking chicken next to me that would say otherwise.
And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.