Maureen Johnson Quotes

How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it's because when he's around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'

What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.

I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.