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Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. I show the little plantseed to Ms. Keen. She gives me extra credit. David rolls his eyes. Biology is so cool.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don’t have anyone to sit with.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Mr. Freeman thinks I need to find my feelings. How can I not find them? They are chewing me alive like an infestation of thoughts, shame, mistakes. I squeeze my eyes shut. Jeans that fit, that’s a good start. I have to stay away from the closet, go to all my classes. I will make myself normal. Forget the rest of it.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “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.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “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.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “My fingers stroking the bark, seeking a Braille code, a clue, a message on how to come back to life after my long undersnow dormancy. I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So how can I find my way? Is there a chainsaw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I’m just tired and I can’t sleep yet. A woman’s work is never done, isn’t that what the fools say?”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I scared myself, because once you’ve thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you’ve actually done it, and then you’re never quite sure what your limits are.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “It isn’t August. The moon is asleep and I’m sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleepin.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn’t sick; I was strong.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Don’t let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I laid down one long road of a sentence in my remembery: “For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.” Way I saw it, Mr. Paine was saying all people were the same, that no one deserved a crown or was born to be higher than another. That’s why America could make its own freedom.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “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.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “So why does everyone make 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.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs...”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Madam Lockton had more than her share. The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “When one suffers, all are weakened, but when everyone thrives, we dance.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be, is messy as hell; the best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I knew I wouldn’t get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren’t.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Shame, turned inside out, is rage.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “My bed is sending out serious nap rays.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I doubt trees are ever told to ‘be the screwed-up ninth-grader.’”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy – old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it’s because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mountains, the maple syrup is trickling. Brave geese punch through the thin ice left on the lake. Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green.”
Laurie Halse Anderson Quote: “Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti.”
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