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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.” (The Name of the Star Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it’s a snake with no venom.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named “Further Maths”. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. —Morrissey, “The Last of the Famous International Playboys”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.” (The Name of the Star Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“Sometimes people graduate but they don’t leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“Sometimes you have to see the bathroom to know the hard reality of things.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“The best part, without any question, was the tie. I’ve always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
“With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue, and all would be well.”
Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
