Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

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  Blood, Hands, Snow

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

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• Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

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  Girl, Believe, Teeth

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• Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.

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  Night, Lasts, Assignments

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

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  Girl, Boys, Space

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• I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

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  Stupid, Silly, Woods

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.101, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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