Maureen Johnson

Author

1973-02-16

Quotes by Maureen Johnson

• People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

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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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• Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.

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• Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

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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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• Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

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• When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine. Put your clothes in for a wash, he said. They were disgusting.Ginny always thought that the only way of getting clothes clean was by drowning them in scalding water and then whipping them around in a violent centrifugal motion that caused the entire washing machine to vibrate and the floor to shake. You beat them clean. You made them suffer. This machine used about half a cup of water and was about as violent as a toaster, plus it stopped every few minutes, as if it were exhausted from the effort of turning itself.Sluff, sluff, sluff sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest.Click.Sluff, sluff, sluff, sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest.Who thought to put a window on a washing machine? Keith asked. Does anyone just sit and watch their wash?You mean, besides us?Well, he said, yeah. Is there any coffee?

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• I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater.It would would be easier if you just said porn, Scarlett said.No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me.

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

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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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• I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

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• WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one's perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that's the trick.

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• Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

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• Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

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• Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.

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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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• Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

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• WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one's perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that's the trick.

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• I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

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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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