Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 6

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• I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Morning, Play, Kitchen

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

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• I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.

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  Mother, Stupid, School

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.138, Penguin

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• I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

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  Self Harm, Kids, Hard Work

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• Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.

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  Blood, Glitter, Excitement

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2007). “Twisted”, p.57, Penguin

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• You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

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  Hurt, Couple, Lying

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.179, Penguin

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• Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

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  Cutting, Soul, Poison

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

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• My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.

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  Morning, Class, Firsts

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Macmillan

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• There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

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  People, Sick

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.113, Macmillan

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• A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

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  Summer, Dad, Block

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

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  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

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  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

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• I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

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  Mirrors, Mouths, Bleeding

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• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

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  Baby, Horse, Team

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• The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

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  Sun, Ghost, Come Up

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

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  Doe, Answers, Want

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

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• I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.

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  Mirrors, Doors, Locked

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.166, Penguin

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• I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

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  Hurt, Pain, Cat

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• My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

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  Football, Religious, Monday

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

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  Girl, Pieces, Steam

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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• I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

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  Body, Soup, Sugar

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.155, Penguin

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• I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)

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  Girl, Dream, Nice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.64, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

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  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

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• It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

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  Knowing, Maps, This Life

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

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  Notebook, Morning, Hate

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.3, Macmillan

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• I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.

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  Memories, Ocean, Mean

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.188, Penguin

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