Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Couple, Kids, Air

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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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• 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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• 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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• I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.

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  Morning, Play, Kitchen

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.92, 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

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  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

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• I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. 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.

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  Hurt, Pain, Cat

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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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• Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

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  Baby, Stupid, People

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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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• 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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