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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
Art is about paying attention.
— Laurie 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
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
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
— Laurie Anderson
She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?
— Laurie Halse Anderson
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
— Laurie 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
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
— Laurie 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
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
— Laurie Anderson
I'm not wearing this!" I shouted."Wear it or die," Mom shouted back. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm a real workaholic.
— Laurie Anderson
I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.
— Laurie 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
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
— Laurie Anderson
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
— Laurie Anderson
I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
— Laurie Anderson
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
— Laurie Anderson
Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
I have survived. I am here.
— 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
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
— Laurie Anderson
Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
— Laurie Anderson
Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
— Laurie Anderson
They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.
— 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
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
— Laurie Anderson
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— Laurie Halse Anderson
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
— Laurie 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
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
— Laurie 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
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
— Laurie 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
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
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
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
— Laurie 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
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
— 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
To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
— Laurie Anderson
A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Tell me this is a nightmare
— 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
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.
— 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
I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map
— Laurie Halse Anderson
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
— Laurie Anderson
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
— Laurie Anderson