"Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering……" — Maureen Johnson

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

— Maureen Johnson

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170 Quotes by Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson has 170 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be…
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to…
Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for…
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry…
A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it…
You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked…
Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really.…
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.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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