The Box in the Woods
Maureen Johnson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I’m still going to eat a lot of tacos,” Nate said. “But I’m going to do it judgmentally”
“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.”
“Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.”
“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.”
“Never question the girl who works in the library" -Eric”
“night,” he said. “All. Night. He talked about my book. Mostly, what he thought was wrong with it. And where is the second one? He knows more about that book than I do. He is a sentient internet comment.”
“There were for sure snakes at the camp. It was entirely made of snakes. Why hadn’t she thought of the snakes?”
“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.”
“Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.”
“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.”
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Book Keywords:
suspicion, stevie
