Lynn Johnston

The most profound statements are often said in silence. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#ending #felt #i #life #life is a

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bed #church #dad #go #kids

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bad #bad times #does #everybody #get

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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