Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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'm learning how to taste everything.

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  Recovery, Taste

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

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  Uncles, Teaching, Kids

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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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• 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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• Kids are mostly very resilient.

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  Kids, Resilient

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• I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

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  Our Veterans, Proud, Veteran

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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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• We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

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  Sex, Children, Struggle

  "Speak' author: 'We as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

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  Book, Writing, World

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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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• 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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• 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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