Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 5

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• We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

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  Snow, Gingerbread, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.78, Penguin

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

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  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

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  Self, Trying, Teeth

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.39, Macmillan

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• I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.

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  Girl, Couple, Real

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

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  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

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  Coffee, Muffins, Cranberries

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.297, Penguin

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• Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

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  Girl, Air, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.298, Penguin

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• This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

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  Sacrifice, Bird, Wonderful

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

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  Ducks, Upset, Daffy Duck

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• I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

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  Book, Writing, Kids

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

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• I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

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  Party, School, Fake

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.42, Macmillan

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• She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

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  Country, School, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.13, Macmillan

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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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• There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

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  Safe, Has Beens

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.19, Penguin

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• Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

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  Breathing, Eating, Hardest

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.232, Scholastic UK

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• I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

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  Glowing, Sitting, Neon

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

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• It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

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  School, Wire, Easier

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.108, Macmillan

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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. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

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  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

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  Firsts, Scream, Bigs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.23, Penguin

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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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• She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

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  Life, Departed, Grandfather

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Fever 1793”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

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  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

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  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

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  Glasses, Two, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.

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  Karma, Thinking, Ass

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