Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes
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Laurie Halse Anderson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
Well ... It might be a little broken.'
'A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out.
'But fixable.
'A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out.
'But fixable.
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.
Me: All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.
Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.
I hate winter. I've lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it.
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
The rest of the class looked away. He [Jonas} was a quiet freak, not a zombie. The horde would not protect him. They'd stand by and watch the culling.
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.
You gonna spend the rest of your days whining because you dad's a jerk? I hate people like that. Don't be a baby - live your own life.
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger.
I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something?
Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
The stars folded themselves away as the sun peeked above the horizon and cracked open the sky and I kissed him and we laughed and it was good.
Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue.
I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.
I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.
The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.
It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.
The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men.
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.