Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
Maureen Johnson in Let It Snow (2012)
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The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.
Maureen Johnson in The Key to the Golden Firebird (2004)
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
Maureen Johnson in Let It Snow (2012)
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It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
Maureen Johnson in The Last Little Blue Envelope (2011)
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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 in The Name of the Star (2011)
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Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
Maureen Johnson in The Name of the Star (2011)
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Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
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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.
Maureen Johnson in The Last Little Blue Envelope (2011)
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Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.
Maureen Johnson in The Name of the Star (2011)
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Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.
Maureen Johnson in Let It Snow (2012)
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