“I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.” PeopleIfsThinkingUnhappinessLike Yourself Author:Lynn Johnston
“I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life” IfsKnowsInterestingNovelAdventureGood And Bad Author:Lynn Johnston
“My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!” PeopleIfsWantAudienceLaughingBrotherMy BrotherMaking People Laugh Author:Lynn Johnston
“If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.” IfsLooksBookSchoolFatherSexPaperDrawsCuriousPortraitsYearbook Author:Lynn Johnston
“But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.” IfsChildrenHomeMotherTake MeBrutalTake Me Away Author:Lynn Johnston
