Maureen Johnson citations

“Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.”

“I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with”

“It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.”

“One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.”

“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.”

“And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.”

“Keep calm and carry on.
Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.”

“I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.”

“I'm Keith," he said, "and you're… clearly mad, but what's your name?”

“The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”

“Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.”

“Salt. Wound. Together at last.”

“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”

“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”

“There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.”

“The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts… nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.”

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”

“Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said.
"Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.”

“It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.”

“We study there a lot because… what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.”

“I am a mass of contradictions.”

“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.”

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

“Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.”

“This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.”

“WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.”

“Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!”

“What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked.
It was a good question.”

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