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• School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  School, Luxury, Library

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• I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.

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  Memories, Mistake, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.51, Macmillan

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• I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

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  Drinking, Cutting, Sisterhood

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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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• 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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• Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

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  Creativity, Imagination, Beats

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

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• I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.

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  Jobs, Believe, Reality

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.185, 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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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.

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  Fun, Holiday, Kids

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

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  School, Thinking, Long

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• I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

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  Book, Helping, Funny Book

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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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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

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  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.

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  Choices, Darkness, Lord

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2007). “Twisted”, p.280, Penguin

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• It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

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  Lying, Communication, Feelings

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan

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• He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

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  Silence, Heard, Eloquent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

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  Skins, Sound, Fabric

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.

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  Mean, Apology, Ifs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.197, Penguin

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• I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

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  Lonely, Excited, Joyful

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

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• If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

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  Running, Together, Stitches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.27, Scholastic UK

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• Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

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  No Friends, Way, Speak

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them

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  Children, Father, Book

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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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• 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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• This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

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  Children, Fighting, Men

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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