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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 just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. — Laurie 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

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. — 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

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. — Laurie 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

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people. — 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

weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld, — 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

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad. — Laurie 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

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better. — Laurie 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

You can do great things with low-tech stuff. — Laurie Anderson