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Halloween - the day when we could pretend to be whatever we wanted - seemed to be letting everyone be who they really were. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how. — Laurie Halse Anderson

He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. — Laurie Halse Anderson

My goal is to go home and take a nap. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities ... — Laurie Halse Anderson

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' — Laurie Halse Anderson

She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things? — Laurie Halse Anderson

Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm not wearing this!" I shouted.
"Wear it or die," Mom shouted back. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You promise not to maim me?"
"I promise to give fair warning before I maim you. — Laurie Halse Anderson

She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later. — Laurie Halse Anderson

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with. — Laurie Halse Anderson

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The bruises are vivid, but they will fade. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. — Laurie Halse Anderson

weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld, — Laurie Halse Anderson

Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men. — Laurie Halse Anderson

How could men who liked cats be bad? — Laurie Halse Anderson

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have survived. I am here. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . . — Laurie Halse Anderson

Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink. — Laurie Halse Anderson

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I lean into the mirror. eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. am i in there somewhere? — Laurie Halse Anderson

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have to go. Boss has
this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying
me. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear. — Laurie Halse Anderson

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E
A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E — Laurie Halse Anderson

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right. — Laurie Halse Anderson

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. — Laurie Halse Anderson

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson

One had to be careful with elbows and boys — Laurie Halse Anderson

Tell me this is a nightmare — Laurie Halse Anderson

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school on a sunny day in May. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. — Laurie Halse Anderson

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. — Laurie Halse Anderson

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference. — Laurie Halse Anderson

A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map — Laurie Halse Anderson

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Write about the emotions you fear the most. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. — Laurie Halse Anderson

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. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Where did you live before you came here?" I asked.
"The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin. — Laurie Halse Anderson

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. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. — Laurie Halse Anderson

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. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Kids are mostly very resilient. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so ... silent. Empty. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do. — Laurie Halse Anderson