Maureen Johnson: Likeness

Maureen Johnson is writer from the USA. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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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

Source: The Name of the Star

“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

Maureen Johnson

Source: The Name of the Star

“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“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.”

Maureen Johnson

Source: Girl at Sea

“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 book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.”

Maureen Johnson

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

“Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?” Keith asked… “you all think you’re Irish. What’s the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun…”

Maureen Johnson

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

“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 book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.”

Maureen Johnson

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

“Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances