Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

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  Cheating, Clouds, Sneakers

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

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• Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

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  Country, Grandma, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.36, Penguin

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• You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat- ing heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.

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  Heart, Missing, Wicked

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• Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

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  Nature, Heart, Sky

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.130, Macmillan

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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 won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

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  Borders, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.181, Scholastic UK

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

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  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

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  Space, Shining, Daylight

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.21, Penguin

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• Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

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  Eating Disorder, Want, Dies

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

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• We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.

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  Strong, Forever, Sacred

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.36, Penguin

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• The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

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  Eating Disorder, Skinny, Cry

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

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• 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.

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  Mom, Eye, Thinking

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.146, 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 lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

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  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, 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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• I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

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  Elephants, Sweaters, Needs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.180, Penguin

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• He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.

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  Eating Disorder, Hips, Nightmare

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.192, Penguin

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• I'm learning how to taste everything.

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  Recovery, Taste

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

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  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

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  Hurt, Lying, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

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• Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

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  Life, Forever, Gone

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• Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

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  Wish, Be Careful, Careful

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

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