Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• 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 together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Stupid, School

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.138, Penguin

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Harm, Kids, Hard Work

• 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.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Uncles, Teaching, Kids

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