Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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 musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Baby, Stars

• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

• I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Couple, Real

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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