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Parent Quotes by Maureen Johnson
- 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…
- 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…
- I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged…
- 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,…
- One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this.…
- Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
- Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
- She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's…
- 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…
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