Frases de Maureen Johnson

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“I'm the last of the mad ones.”

“Boo: "Go talk to her."

Callum: "About what?"

Boo: "Anything."

Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"

Boo: "I do that."

Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.”

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

“Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.”

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

“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”

“My final word: don't follow your dreams… chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!”

“One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?"
"No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too."
"I'll take that as a yes," I said.”

“It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking”

“Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!”

“Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.”