Top 280 Maureen Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “But... he had had a long night, and it seemed a waste to force my story on him when he was half asleep.”

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202. “It was a good brain, but it had only two modes – fog and frenzy.”

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203. “I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.”

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204. “Stevie had no fears of the dead. The living, however, sometimes gave her the creeps.”

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205. “Sometimes, you have to wait a little bit for this kind of gratification, but it’s still worth it.”

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206. “The more I looked, the more Christmasy it got.”

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207. “He was usually her companion in avoiding things, but tonight he was letting her down. His fingers hadn’t stopped moving all night.”

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208. “Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.”

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209. “Before the Smorgasbord, Noah Price was just a star in my sky... constant, familiar, bright and far above me.”

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210. “Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof.”

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211. “My entrance brought a little light to his eyes.”

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212. “I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.”

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213. “Could you burn logs after a murder?”

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214. “I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.”

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215. “I’m still going to eat a lot of tacos,” Nate said. “But I’m going to do it judgmentally.”

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216. “Which was precisely what I had to do. Go away. Get out of this house and his life while I still had a shred of dignity left.”

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217. “Again, I noticed and again, I didn’t really care. But he did make more of an impact than the snow.”

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218. “Let it snow and snow and bury me. Very funny, Life.”

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219. “And then the surface beneath us just went away.”

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220. “He still looked handsome. Not in the same way as Noah. Noah wasn’t flawless. He had no single amazing feature. Instead, he had a confluence of agreeable aspects that were accepted by one and all to add up to one very attractive whole, perfectly packaged in the right clothes.”

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221. “They all seemed to have a deep, penetrating knowledge of everything going on in the world – politics, art, books, music. They all sounded so self-assured. That wasn’t surprising, considering that they were older and successful.”

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222. “Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.”

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223. “It all feels so fake that it seems okay.”

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224. “Two students had approached Leonard while he was staring at the painting, a boy and a girl. The boy was beautiful – his hair genuinely golden, a color poets wrote about but rarely saw. The girl had a smile like a dangerous question. The first thing that struck Leo was how alive they looked. In contrast to the surroundings, they were bright and flushed.”

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225. “Told her I would wait as long as it took. She told me not to bother, but I waited anyway.”

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226. “This is about real people, not figures from fiction. I know this crime is popular – that crime itself is popular. But crime has a human face. If you’re going to study crime, you have to remember the people involved.”

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227. “England and Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. England is the country. Britain is the island containing England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is the formal designation of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as a political entity. If you mess this up, you will be corrected. Repeatedly.”

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228. “Oh, I like it,” Nate said. “Snow makes it socially acceptable to stay in.”

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229. “But this was not the time to be picky.”

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230. “Office of Confusion and Panic.”

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231. “Back in Pittsburgh, if someone had infiltrated the library with fifty squirrels, that person would have been hailed as a hero. But Ellingham was full of library lovers, and there was the feeling in the air that this was, perhaps, a bridge too far. You could be naked, you could scream and hang out on the roof, but you do not mess with the place with the books.”

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232. “But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.”

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233. “Hello, Alice,” Stevie said. “It’d okay. It’s over.”

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234. “I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”

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235. “People always talk about this like it’s some lurid slasher movie,” Allison went on. “I lost my sister. Some bastard took my sister from me. I feel like Carson used her memory, gave us that reading room, to try to worm his way in. He can go to hell. But I didn’t mean to catch you in the crossfire.”

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236. “Do guys really believe that if they are the only male in the area that girls will suddenly crawl on top of them? Like we scavenge for lone survivors and reward them with group make-out sessions?”

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237. “Some guys surprise you like that.”

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238. “She never drank tea at home. Tea was for England.”

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239. “My memories of the last year were playing back through my mind at super-speed, but I was looking at them all from a different camera angle.”

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240. “They’re English,” David said, sitting on the bed. “That keep calm and carry on thing is real. You know. Don’t talk about stuff that’s bad. Talk about tennis! That’s how they are.”

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241. “It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

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242. “WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.”

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243. “It was all so crazy... as weird as finding out that someone had written a book about my life or something.”

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244. “Felt the world swirling with snow.”

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245. “Things around here have deviated from the usual.”

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246. “Didn’t say we tell each other everything.”

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247. “To her, majoring in painting was an act of insanity akin to majoring in photocopying or reheating leftovers.”

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248. “I wish I’d remembered not to use it around other people, because it was kind of our word.”

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249. “If he hadn’t dragged me, I would never have made it up the hill.”

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250. “The sky was white instead of the crazy pink of the night before.”

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