Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Mom

Quotes about: Mom

• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

• I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Running, Dad

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.87, Macmillan

• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

• No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Eye, Thinking

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.146, Scholastic UK

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