Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Taken

• My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Teacher, Butterfly, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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