Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

• 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.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Eye, Thinking

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.146, Scholastic UK

• The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Eye, Men

• 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

  Eye, Rivers, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

• I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Eye, Way

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.64, Penguin

• 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

• They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Different, Because I Can

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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