Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

- Maureen Johnson

Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the …

- Maureen Johnson

I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.

- Maureen Johnson

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

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

- Maureen Johnson

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…

- Maureen Johnson

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

- Maureen Johnson

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters a…

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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.

- Maureen Johnson