Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Answers, Tricks, Interrogation

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

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• Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

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  Ties, People, Parent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.26, Penguin

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

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  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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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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  Attitude, School, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.4, Macmillan

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• I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.

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  Daughter, Hurt, Feet

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.19, Scholastic UK

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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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• I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

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  Stupid, Long, Done

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.92, Scholastic UK

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• Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

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  Mean, Sound, Revision

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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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  Strong, Years, Sick

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.33, Scholastic UK

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• Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Morning, Fall, Night

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• I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

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  Dad, Flower, Keys

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

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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 make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

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  School, Two, Nuclear

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.14, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Mom, Block, Dark

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

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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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• Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

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  Mean, Adults, Want

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.108, Scholastic UK

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• I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

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  Skins, Lines, Three

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.60, Scholastic UK

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• You must walk alone to find your soul.

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  Soul, Speak, Walks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

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  Perfect, Interesting, Tree

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

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  Strong, Mirrors, Self

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Having a friend made everything else suck less.

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  Made

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2003). “Catalyst”, p.138, Penguin

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• i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

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  Morning, Leaving, Path

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• Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

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  Should, Illegal, Gym

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.18, Macmillan

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