Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 7

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• They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Couple, Kids, Air

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• The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271

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  Children, Eye, Men

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• I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

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  Pockets, Dollars, Bucks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.144, Macmillan

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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 look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

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  Eye, Rivers, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

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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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• 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... -Wintergirls

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  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

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  Suicide, Hurt, Blood

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• They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean

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  Dad, Mean, My Boyfriend

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.15, 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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• There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

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  Believe, Asking Why, Why Not

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.18, Penguin

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• I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

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  Earthquakes, Understood

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

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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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• 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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• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

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  Breathe, Breaths, Wintergirls

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

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• Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

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  Adults, Bad Things

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

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  Zero, Numbers, Tennis

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

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  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

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  Cancer, Anorexia, Wish

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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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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• 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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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

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  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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