Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

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• I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

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  Self Esteem, Inspiration, Pounds

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

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  Hurt, Inspiration, Soul

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• I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

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  Nice, Sleep, Mind

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.165, Macmillan

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• You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

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  Speak, Knows

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• A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

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  Survivor, Scar

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• Write about the emotions you fear the most.

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  Motivational, Fear, Writing

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

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  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

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  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

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  Life Sucks, Ifs

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• I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.

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  Awake, I Can

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.177, Penguin

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

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  Mistake, Apology, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

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  Book, Pages, Wanted

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

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  Truth, Memories, Confused

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.188, Macmillan

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

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  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

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  Girl, Baby, Stars

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

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  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a story. I believe that most -- if not all -- people are born with these seeds. What separates the writers from the non-writers is that the writers actually sit down and, you know... write.

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  Believe, Writing, People

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Book, Taken

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• The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

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  Girl, Stars, Moon

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.210, Scholastic UK

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• Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

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  Hurt, Mean, Helping

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.181, Penguin

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• When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.

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  Jobs, Cancer, Heart

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

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  Wind, Soul, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.10, Macmillan

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• We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

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  Uncles, Teaching, Kids

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• The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

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  Answers, Tricks, Interrogation

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.26, Penguin

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• Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.

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  Art, Men, Guy

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.119, Macmillan

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