Julia B.

“You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ﾠ There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ﾠ”
― Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

“Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things."

"Because we're stupid," she said.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall