Maureen Johnson Quotes

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

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

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

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.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

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

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

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

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

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

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

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.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

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

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

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

I ran like a thing that runs.

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.

All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

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

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.