Maureen Johnson Short Quotes

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It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

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Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

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She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

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We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

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There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

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You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.

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One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra

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No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

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

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Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

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Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

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I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

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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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Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

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I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.

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Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

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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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It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

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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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Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

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Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

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Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

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I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

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New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

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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.

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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.

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I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

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It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.

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