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1 " WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick. "
― Maureen Johnson
2 " 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. "
― Maureen Johnson , The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
3 " 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.... "
― Maureen Johnson , 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
4 " Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies. "
― Maureen Johnson , Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1)
5 " Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom. "
6 " 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! "
7 " Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph! "
8 " 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. "
― Maureen Johnson , The Last Little Blue Envelope (Little Blue Envelope, #2)
9 " 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. "
10 " People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up "
― Maureen Johnson , Let it Snow
11 " You can't curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal-position or was I going to woman up? "
― Maureen Johnson , The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, #2)
12 " People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened. "
13 " I felt so alone on that train... a weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness. "
14 " I’d love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I’d want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose. "
15 " 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. "
16 " It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee. "
17 " It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness "
18 " Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general "
19 " i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York. "
20 " Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates? "
