Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

About Laurie Halse Anderson:

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature.
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Having a friend made everything else suck less.

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My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

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I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

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Could he hear my heart pounding?

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Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is wher...

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I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

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Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.

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I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.

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Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

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The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.

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I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

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The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.

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Love messes you up and makes you do strange things

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Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

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I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.

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IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

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If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

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Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

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Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

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This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....

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Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

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Author Bio

  • NameLaurie Halse Anderson
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksSpeak; Catalyst; Wintergirls
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award