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  I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.

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  Cutting, Class, Dio

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.107, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

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  Doors, Rooms, Appearance

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.39, Macmillan

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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 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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• 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'm learning how to taste everything.

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  Recovery, Taste

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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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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

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  Self, Talking, Voice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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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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• I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.

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  Together, Lips, Wake Up

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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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• Kids are mostly very resilient.

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  Kids, Resilient

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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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• 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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• I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

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  Listening, World, Want

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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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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• My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.

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  Pieces, Body, Faces

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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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• 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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