Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 8

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• Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

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  Glasses, Two, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

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  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

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  Baby, Horse, Team

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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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• 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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• 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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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

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  Girl, Moving, Sight

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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 want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

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  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

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• CONJUGATE THIS:
  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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• 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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• 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 wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

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  Self Harm, Kids, Hard Work

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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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• 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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• 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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