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There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them," Stevie said. "Motive."
"Okay," Nate said. "My motive is that I prefer dragons."
"To what?"
"To the absence of dragons.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: There are reasons for everything,
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Sometimes it is worth any
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I try to shake it
These wires run a current through it. When we press the one and the nine at the same time, the current runs through the diamond and it emits a pulse that we can't hear or feel, but it..."
"Explodes ghosts."
"I prefer to think that it disperses the vestigial energy that an individual leaves behind after death."
"Or that," I said.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: These wires run a current
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: English rain feels obligatory, like
What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: What are you?
one of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get
the most updated file.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: one of the worst things
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, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Stuart, who had just witnessed
From this close, she could see the color of his eyes perfectly. They were a misty, shifting blue marbled with gray, like smoke rising through an early morning sky.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: From this close, she could
Knowledge is the heaviest weight of all.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Knowledge is the heaviest weight
I felt like I was faking all of this, like I was playing the part of a student. I had the costume and the props, but I didn't really belong here. I'd pinned notes on the stupid corkboard backing of my desk, and I'd highlighted things...But it was all so meaningless.

For about an hour, I had an overwheling urge to grab my bag, stuff in a few things, and take the next train to Bristol. I could be back on my parents' couch that night if I got moving. I could admit that I wasn't ready for this, that the semester was a wash. My parents would be thrilled, I was sure. Not about the semester being a wash--but certainly about having me back where they could keep me safe and sound. It would be so easy to do it. The very idea made me warm inside. It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so.

And yet...even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, i remembered the problem.

There would still be ghosts

i would still have a future.

I would still go back to school eventually. You can't curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. 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?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I felt like I was
Don't follow someone into the dark, Stevie. I've seen it happen too many times.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Don't follow someone into the
We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: We all know what we're
Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Tired, but not the kind
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
Maureen Johnson Quotes: She was standing in the
(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.)
Maureen Johnson Quotes: (Oh, the ongoing love affair
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The kids I talk to
Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Sometimes artist like to catch
People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up
Maureen Johnson Quotes: People can't really sympathize with
Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely."
"Good morning," I replied.
"Morning. Listen to this. The second victim ...
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Did you hear?
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 just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: These houses had been plunked
I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I feel warm and reassured,
My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: My rule is: the second
Rory, do you want to go live in the sky? On a Pegasus?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Rory, do you want to
So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: So much of anxiety was
It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so. And yet ... even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, I remembered the problem. There would still be ghosts. I would still have a future.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: It was okay to give
You should really, like, dump her and date me instead,' May heard herself saying, all confidence. 'I'm not as irritating. I mean, I'm irritating, but I'm not as bad as she is. And you know me better. Wouldn't that be funny? I mean, we've already hooked up, so we're good.'

We broke up,' Pete said quickly. His voice was so bright that May could hear the smile coming through. For a moment she was confused.

Who, you and me?'

No. Nell and i.'

Oh . . .'

The meter in her brain clicked once or twice, signaling May that she'd probably said enough.

I have to go,' she said suddenly. 'Okay? I think that's great. Cool. Okay. Gotta go now. Hey, Pete, I love you!
Maureen Johnson Quotes: You should really, like, dump
We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: We Deveauxs preferred to talk
Pumpkins were the watermelons of fall.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Pumpkins were the watermelons of
I felt the like blossom in me.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I felt the like blossom
The questions that creep around at four thirty in the morning are not the kind that can be easily dismissed. You can beat them with a shovel, and they'll just keep getting back up.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The questions that creep around
Fun fact," Stevie said, trying to lighten the mood in the vast, gloomy space. "This fireplace? Henry the Eighth had one just like it, in Hampton Court. Albert Ellingham had an exact copy made."
"Fun fact," Nate replied, "Henry the Eighth killed two of his wives. Who wants a murderer's fireplace?"
"I'm not sure, but that's the name of my new game show.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Fun fact,
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Lecturing Brooks was as useful
What did you do?" she hissed.
"Me?"
"Don't be a dick," she said.
"That ship has sailed. Hang on. We can't fight yet. Where's my hug?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: What did you do?
England and Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. England is the country. Britain is the island containing England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is the formal designation of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as a political entity. If you mess this up, you will be corrected. Repeatedly. The
Maureen Johnson Quotes: England and Britain and the
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Claim whatever you want. Say
Were you playing with Stuart? she asked.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Were you playing with Stuart?
It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness
Maureen Johnson Quotes: It just seemed like telling
Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Maybe this was what Aunt
But knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: But knowing something is beautiful
Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said "see you later" than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Avery had sixth and seventh
The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The funny thing about stop
Games are not fun when you don't know you're playing.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Games are not fun when
Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems ... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Of course, he showed me
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: She firmly held the theory
The hand that rested on my shoulder rubbed it a bit, comfortingly. Then it gave my shoulder a little squeeze. I leaned into him.

Maybe it was that I was broken. Maybe it was just that I was out of my mind. But it occurred to me that I was going to kiss him. The thought just arrived, certain knowledge, delivered from some greater, more knowledgeable place. I was going to kiss him. Stephen would not want to kiss me. He would back up in horror. And yet, I was still going to do it. I reached over, and put my hand against his chest, then I moved closer. I could feel just the very tips of the gentle stubble on his cheek brushing against my skin.

"Rory," he said. But it was a quiet protest, and it went nowhere.

For the first few seconds, he didn't move-he accepted the kiss like you might accept a spoonful of medicine. Then I heard it, a sigh, like he had finally set down a heavy weight.

I was pretty sure we were both kind of terrified, but I was completely sure that we were both doing this. We kissed slowly, very deliberately, coming together and then pulling apart and looking at each other. Then each kiss got longer, and then it didn't stop. Stephen put his hand just under the edge of my shirt, holding it on the spot where the scar was. Sometimes the skin around the scar got cold-now it was warm. Now it was alive.

"So Thorpe says that-Seriously?"

Callum was in the doorway.

Stephen mumbled what I think was
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The hand that rested on
You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: You could wear the same
DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY PATHWAYS, NARROW AND subtle. Fingerprints. The lost piece of thread. The dog barking in the night. But there is also Google.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY
Charles was dressed more casually than normal, in a heavy fleece and sweatpants. Dr. Quinn rose to the occasion in a rose-gray cashmere sweater, a sweeping wool skirt, black cashmere tights, and tall black boots. No amount of cold was going to rob her of her queenly graces. Charles had a look on his face that said, "I'm not angry, but I am disappointed." Dr. Quinn's expression said, "He's passive-aggressive. I'm not. I am aggressive. I have killed before."
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Charles was dressed more casually
Look! A riddle! Time for fun!
Should we use a rope or gun?
Knives are sharp and gleam so pretty
Poison's slow, which is a pity
Fire is festive, drowning's slow
Hanging's a ropy way to go
A broken head, a nasty fall
A car colliding with a wall
Bombs make a very jolly noise
Such ways to punish naughty boys!
What shall we use? We can't decide.
Just like you cannot run or hide.
Ha ha.
Truly,
Devious
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Look! A riddle! Time for
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 the approximate level of pressure.)
Maureen Johnson Quotes: She introduced herself to my
And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: And if we get caught,
Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Every time you try to
Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Well, what now? You have
I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I miss you so much
What tinfoil?" he asked.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: What tinfoil?
There were night sounds that Stevie had still not come to grips with - the rustling on the ground and above, the hooting of owls - things that suggested that far more happened here at night than during the day. (And yet, Stevie had yet to see the one creature that had been promised in sign after sign along the highway, the ones that read MOOSE. One moose. That's all she wanted. Was that too much to ask? Instead, there were these suggestions of owls, and all Stevie ever heard about the owls was that they liked shiny things and would eat your eyes given half the chance.)
Maureen Johnson Quotes: There were night sounds that
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I decided to deflect her
You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: You have to take things
Go talk to her," Boo said.
"About what?"
"Anything."
"You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
"I do that," she replied.
"I love it when you get it wrong," Callum said.
"Once. It happened once."
"It happened twice," Stephen said, looking over.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Go talk to her,
I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I realize Jubilee is a
I'm Keith," he said, "and you're ... clearly mad, but what's your name?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I'm Keith,
The critical scene of the mystery is when the detective enters. The action shifts to Sherlock's sitting room. The little Belgian man with the waxed moustache appears in the lobby of the grand hotel. The gentle old woman with a bag of knitting comes to visit her niece when the poison pen letters start going around the village. The private detective comes back to the office after a night of drinking and finds the woman with the cigarette and the veiled hat this is when things will change.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The critical scene of the
Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You like smoked herring? You will. Of course you will! I work in iron, though I have also done some of these wood carvings. All of my work is based on traditional Danish art. I am a Viking! Eat!
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Good stuff!
Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Don't get stabbed. It makes
Sometimes artists like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint." Mari
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Sometimes artists like to catch
Salt. Wound. Together at last.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Salt. Wound. Together at last.
Maybe it was that I was broken. Maybe it was just that I was out of my mind. But it occurred to me that I was going to kiss him. The thought just arrived, certain knowledge, delivered from some greater, more knowledgeable place. I was going to kiss him. Stephen would not want to kiss me. He would back up in horror. And yet, I was still going to do it. I reached over, and I put my hand against his chest, then I moved closer. I could feel just the very tips of the gentle stubble on his cheek brushing against my skin.

"Rory," he said. But it was a quiet protest, and it went nowhere.

For the first few seconds, he didn't move - he accepted the kiss like you might accept a spoonful of medicine. Then I heard it, a sigh, like he had finally set down a heavy weight.

"I was pretty sure we were both kind of terrified, but I was completely sure that we were both doing this. We kissed slowly, very deliberately, coming together and then pulling apart and looking at each other. Then each kiss got longer, and then it didn't stop. Stephen put his hand just under the edge of my shirt, holding it on the spot where the scar was. Sometimes the skin around the scar got cold - now it was warm. Now it was alive.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Maybe it was that I
She called, "Aurora!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: She called,
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 group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: People were freaked out, but
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 to say something like, "You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger!" But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, "Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!
Maureen Johnson Quotes: We heard her come halfway
You're not weird in the head.' 'There's a giant talking chicken next to me that would say otherwise.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: You're not weird in the
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real.
-Suite Scarlett
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The whole
A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: A pause while my mother
The moose is a lie," Stevie Bell said.
Her mother turned to her, looking like she often looked - a bit tired, forced to engage in whatever Stevie was about to say out of parental obligation.
"What?" she said.
Stevie pointed out the window of the coach.
"See that?" Stevie indicated a sign that simply read MOOSE. "We've passed five of those. That's a lot of promise. Not one moose."
"Stevie ..."
"They also promised falling rocks. Where are my falling rocks?"
"Stevie ..."
"I'm a strong believer in truth in advertising," Stevie said.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The moose is a lie,
After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people knew and wanted to relate to. The one people wanted to comfort and fix. And there was another me, a hidden me that no one ever saw. There was a me who had tasted death. That me knew things others people didn't know.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: After that, I felt like
It turns out I'm really good at this stuff."
"I always believed in you," Stevie said.
"Did you?"
"No," Stevie said. "But you have a nice ass, so I let you slide."
They smiled at each other from a thousand miles away. Stevie had never felt closer to him.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: It turns out I'm really
Perhaps it sounds like a wonderful thing to be born and raised in a small hotel in New York City. Lots of things sound fun until they are subjected to closer inspection. If you lived on a cruise ship, for example, you would have to do the Macarena every night of your life. Think about that.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Perhaps it sounds like a
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: When I worked in theater,
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 - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Just then, my phone started
It's everyone's dream... Come to Ellingham Academy, move a ramp out of a hole in the dark. - Nate
Maureen Johnson Quotes: It's everyone's dream... Come to
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Something about her suggested that
Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Nothing was quite like it
The kidney was removed with great skill. We have an image of the kidney taken from that broadcast. Viewers are advised that the following image is quite graphic, and-"
"I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney," I said.
"It's a farce," Jazza replied. "They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day."
"Have you seen the singing kidney video?" I asked.
"Ugh. No."
"It's really funny. You should watch it.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The kidney was removed with
Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something.
Tobin and Angie ... their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a
glorious, blush-worthy surprise.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Then I noticed his rising
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope.
The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The essay I had to
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I knew it was beautiful,
What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals.
"Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish."
"Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."
I saw.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: What she didn't display, I
Dawn broke over Ellingham Academy in a swirl of rose pink going into a bloodless blue. Stevie watched the newly risen sun come up over the Great House like a celestial game of peekaboo.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Dawn broke over Ellingham Academy
He looked a bit more confused by Stevie and David, but nodded politely. "I'm a watch ad," David said. "She's a hipster grandpa. Together, we solve crime.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: He looked a bit more
I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I may have been a
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.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Sometimes people graduate but they
Idea meets execution. Feeling becomes action.
I don't know why people find this idea so hard to get. I mean, you can throw any two people together, it doesn't mean they'll fall in love. Everyone knows this. No one quite understands how it works. It's just those people, where they are in their lives, how circumstance throws them together. Sure, it's happened before, but never quite in that way. Maybe they seem to come together all wrong. Maybe they've loved others. Maybe they don't always do right by each other ... but it's still there, the love. The event. And no one would dare criticize it just because it's common, it's a little asymmetrical, and anyone can do it. It is unique. It is theirs. It is beautiful. They have made something that has been made a million times before and has also never existed before that moment.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Idea meets execution. Feeling becomes
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. I think she has ideas." "What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean." "Shut it, Weintraub. If I knock you down in the snow, these kids will swarm and eat you.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: One thing,
I never shut up'
Yes, you do'
Not much'
I could make you shut up'
Oh, yeah? ... How?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: I never shut up'<br>Yes, you
There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: There is nothing about a
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?
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Oh my God!
Is this all right?" he asked. He was using that very low, somewhat husky universal kissing voice.
"Huh?" I said, because I am sexy.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Is this all right?
The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: The real magic rocks are
Sometimes you have to see the bathroom to know the hard reality of things.
Maureen Johnson Quotes: Sometimes you have to see
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