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“Anxiety is very accommodating. Minutes ago, Stevie’s anxiety was all about failure. It neatly converted itself into worry about places called Bounce Houses and not having hot water or air-conditioning. It was perfectly ready to bring the snakes to the party. It’s a big tent. All problems are welcome.” (The Box in the Woods Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Daughters were supposed to like prom dresses and getting their hair done and shopping. Stevie assumed those things were all fine and good, but she didn’t understand them, really—at least not in the way that you were supposed to understand them. She never once in her life felt the desire to dress up,”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Even if Shawn and Paul wanted to team up to murder people they thought had wronged them, there seemed little chance that the woman she’d just met would have had any part in that.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Even if you knew your routine like the back of your hand, a checklist was still important.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“I’m still going to eat a lot of tacos,” Nate said. “But I’m going to do it judgmentally”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Never question the girl who works in the library” -Eric”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Periodically someone would encourage her to walk through the woods or try out the mountain bike. Stevie viewed these offers with grave suspicion and declined.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“She wasn’t as bad as Todd, as good as Sabrina, or the well-meaning drug dealer who almost made it to safety. She was simply there, the girlfriend, the fourth victim.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“She wrinkled her nose to dismiss the thought. This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety- thoughts may come, but she didn’t have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“That Nate was feeling so positive should have served as a warning, but people rarely recognize signs when they appear.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“That’s the thing about speaking—you can talk and talk and have no idea at all what the words leaving your mouth mean, or where they came from.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“There were for sure snakes at the camp. It was entirely made of snakes. Why hadn’t she thought of the snakes?”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“There’s really only one reason you’d all be so specific and all tell that same story over and over in the same way. It’s because it wasn’t true.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
“This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety—thoughts may come, but she didn’t have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go.”
Maureen Johnson
The Box in the Woods
