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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.
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Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.
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He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
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My goal is to go home and take a nap.
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I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.
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Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.
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You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl.
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The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.
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Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities ...
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I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'
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She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered.
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Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.
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Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?
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Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.
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The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.
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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
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I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.
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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.
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The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
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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.
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My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
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I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.
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They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.
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The bruises are vivid, but they will fade.
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Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
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Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.
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The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men.
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How could men who liked cats be bad?
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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win.
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I have survived. I am here.
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I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . .
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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.
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Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
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I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.
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I decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
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Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.
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The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.
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IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.
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Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.
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I lean into the mirror. eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. am i in there somewhere?
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Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.
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Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
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Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain
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I have to go. Boss hasthis 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.
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Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear.
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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.
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To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.
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The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma.
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We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
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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.
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One had to be careful with elbows and boys
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Tell me this is a nightmare
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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.
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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.
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I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.
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When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
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So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
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I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
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I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.
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A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
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It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
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I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.
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I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
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Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.
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Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.
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I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.
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Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.
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Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.
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I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map
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Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
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Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.
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I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know.
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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Write about the emotions you fear the most.
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I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
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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.
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We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne.
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The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
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Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.
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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.
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It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.
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The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.
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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.
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Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.
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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.
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Kids are mostly very resilient.
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I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so ... silent. Empty.
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Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.
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