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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The best secrets are the most twisted

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I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was...

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And that’s the problem. When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody out. But it’s a lie.

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If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and...

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Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

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I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But ...

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Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

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A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro.

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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

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I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he’s paying me.

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Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

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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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Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. ......... I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. I wanted to swallow the b...

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I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

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I'm learning how to taste everything.

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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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I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits toge...

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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 ...

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There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

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I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

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I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

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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