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Been Quotes by Maureen Johnson
- I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
- Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get…
- The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a…
- Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note…
- The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so…
- It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
- We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been…
- Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me,…
- 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…
- No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
- Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip…
- She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again." "He's got a…
- 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…
- These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll…
- 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…
- He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around…
- No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance.…
- I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. "Where did you get this?"…
- I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But…
- You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad…
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