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Top 30 Daisy Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

Daisy Johnson Quote: “Her parents. Her genetic parents. All their genes inside her wreaking secret havoc. People give more to their children than hair and eye colour, don’t they? Children are a map of genes.”

1. “Her parents. Her genetic parents. All their genes inside her wreaking secret havoc. People give more to their children than hair and eye colour, don’t they? Children are a map of genes.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection.”

2. “Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I’d always understood that the past did not die just because we wanted it to. The past signed to us: clicks and cracks in the night, misspelled words, the jargon of adverts, the bodies that attracted us or did not, the sounds that reminded us of this or that. The past was not a thread trailing behind us but an anchor.”

3. “I’d always understood that the past did not die just because we wanted it to. The past signed to us: clicks and cracks in the night, misspelled words, the jargon of adverts, the bodies that attracted us or did not, the sounds that reminded us of this or that. The past was not a thread trailing behind us but an anchor.”

— Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson Quote: “The places we are born come back to us. They disguise themselves as words, memory loss, nightmares. They are the way we sometimes wake with a pressure on our chests that is animal-like or turn on a light and see someone we’d thought was long gone standing there looking at us.”

4. “The places we are born come back to us. They disguise themselves as words, memory loss, nightmares. They are the way we sometimes wake with a pressure on our chests that is animal-like or turn on a light and see someone we’d thought was long gone standing there looking at us.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I was the same as you: less a person and more a hole cut away from everything.”

5. “I was the same as you: less a person and more a hole cut away from everything.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “But sometimes I wonder if you are right and if all of our choices are remnants of all the choices we made before. As if decisions were shards from the bombs of our previous actions.”

6. “But sometimes I wonder if you are right and if all of our choices are remnants of all the choices we made before. As if decisions were shards from the bombs of our previous actions.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Your attention is the same as the ray from a lighthouse. I am struck dumb beneath it.”

7. “Your attention is the same as the ray from a lighthouse. I am struck dumb beneath it.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.”

8. “I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Anything can be lost if you try hard enough.”

9. “Anything can be lost if you try hard enough.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “You cannot lie down behind your badly made decisions and call them fate or determinism or god.”

10. “You cannot lie down behind your badly made decisions and call them fate or determinism or god.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.”

11. “Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Virginity was a half-starved dog you were looking after, wanted to give away as quickly as possible so you could forget it ever existed.”

12. “Virginity was a half-starved dog you were looking after, wanted to give away as quickly as possible so you could forget it ever existed.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “The understanding pity of others is a hole.”

13. “The understanding pity of others is a hole.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “My sister is a black hole my sister is a falling tree my sister is the sea.”

14. “My sister is a black hole my sister is a falling tree my sister is the sea.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I am a shape cut out of the universe, tinged with ever-dying stars – and that she is the creature to fill the gap I leave in the world.”

15. “I am a shape cut out of the universe, tinged with ever-dying stars – and that she is the creature to fill the gap I leave in the world.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “My sister is a black hole my sister is a bricked-up window my sister is a house on fire my sister is a car crash my sister is a long night my sister is a battle my sister is here. September.”

16. “My sister is a black hole my sister is a bricked-up window my sister is a house on fire my sister is a car crash my sister is a long night my sister is a battle my sister is here. September.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.”

17. “Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “You crouch by the water and drop your hands into its cold rush until you touch the stony bottom. People, you tell me one day, who grow up around water are different to other people.”

18. “You crouch by the water and drop your hands into its cold rush until you touch the stony bottom. People, you tell me one day, who grow up around water are different to other people.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “The places we are born come back. They disguise themselves as migraines, stomach aches, insomnia.”

19. “The places we are born come back. They disguise themselves as migraines, stomach aches, insomnia.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most.”

20. “She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “She could feel how much she wanted it even through the distance of the sadness.”

21. “She could feel how much she wanted it even through the distance of the sadness.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I have felt tired too, since we left school; some days it is as if I am carrying a second body draped over my shoulders.”

22. “I have felt tired too, since we left school; some days it is as if I am carrying a second body draped over my shoulders.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most. She housed those beautiful daughters, didn’t she, and she has housed depression all through her life like a smaller, weightier child, and she housed excitement and love and despair and in the Settle House she houses an unsettling worry that she finds difficult to shake, an exhaustion that smothers the days out of her.”

23. “She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most. She housed those beautiful daughters, didn’t she, and she has housed depression all through her life like a smaller, weightier child, and she housed excitement and love and despair and in the Settle House she houses an unsettling worry that she finds difficult to shake, an exhaustion that smothers the days out of her.”

— Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson Quote: “Death has worn you smooth as a stone.”

24. “Death has worn you smooth as a stone.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement.”

25. “If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Mostly she is just a mother to us and she is in rooms the way chairs and tables are.”

26. “Mostly she is just a mother to us and she is in rooms the way chairs and tables are.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “She was alive; she was so alive then that she stole living from those around her.”

27. “She was alive; she was so alive then that she stole living from those around her.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I am vulnerable to superstitions and fairy tales, the pockets of weirdness smattering the land.”

28. “I am vulnerable to superstitions and fairy tales, the pockets of weirdness smattering the land.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “Inherent in retelling is – at first – destruction. Breaking down from the inside out. Suggested is respect but what is really there is vengeance, violence, retribution, the allure of denigration.”

29. “Inherent in retelling is – at first – destruction. Breaking down from the inside out. Suggested is respect but what is really there is vengeance, violence, retribution, the allure of denigration.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “I wondered, in that moment, what it was like to be a mother to children who did not need you.”

30. “I wondered, in that moment, what it was like to be a mother to children who did not need you.”

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Daisy Johnson Quote: “She had us with a man she had been afraid of, although she would not tell us why. There were months when she spoke little, only wanted to often be holding us, ordered takeaways, had baths that lasted all afternoon. There were months when she told us she was living in a sadness the color of rust and leather.”

31. “She had us with a man she had been afraid of, although she would not tell us why. There were months when she spoke little, only wanted to often be holding us, ordered takeaways, had baths that lasted all afternoon. There were months when she told us she was living in a sadness the color of rust and leather.”

— Daisy Johnson

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