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Maureen Johnson Inspirational Quotes (97)

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Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.
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No sausage? he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.
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Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
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Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.
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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.
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I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.
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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.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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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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Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.
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Oh my God! said one of the Ambers. Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow? She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?
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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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No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
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You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
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She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H hers? It could just as easily be his. Or Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All
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Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.
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Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!
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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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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.
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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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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? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.
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Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
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I followed your footsteps, he said, in answer to the unspoken question. Snow makes it easy. I had been tracked, like a bear. Sorry to make you go to all that trouble, I said. I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops. A really inept bear.
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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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