Stevie Quotes

“Everything makes me nervous.” Stevie thought a moment. “Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous.”
“But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you’re half tiger.”
Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, “Dear God. I’m terrified of myself.”
― Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered

“You can’t give wild animals food and then take it away.” Stevie pointed a finger at Charlie and snarled through gritted teeth, “So if that means you need to bake, bitch. Bake!”
― Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered

“When she opened the window, a giant moth blew in. It beat a hasty path to the ceiling light and landed against it with a thunk. “I know the feeling,” Stevie said to it.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“one of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get
the most updated file.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“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

“Dawn broke over Ellingham Academy in a swirl of rose pink going into a bloodless blue. Stevie watched the newly risen sun come up over the Great House like a celestial game of peekaboo.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Nate poked her with the toe of his sneaker.
“This is a David thing,” he said. “Obviously.”
She did not reply.
“Romance seems fun,” he added.
“Don’t.”
“I’m not.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Box in the Woods

“She wore a lot of black, because it suited her and it always seemed to go together. Sometimes she felt like she was missing a chip or a gene or something that made this all matter, but it never bothered her much.”
― Maureen Johnson