Maureen Johnson Quotes - Page 6

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• Salt. Wound. Together at last.

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  Together, Lasts, Salt

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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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• No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

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  Done

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• Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Parent

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

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  Pain, Giving, Missing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

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  Flirting, Trying, Puppy

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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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• 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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• 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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