Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Believe, Ghost, Aspect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Scholastic UK

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• Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

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  Funny, Powerful, Naps

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

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  Hilarious, Balls, Nicole

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.19, Macmillan

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• They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

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  Together, Skins, Faults

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• I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start.

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  Thinking, Skins, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.91, Penguin

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• Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

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  Smell, Gossip, Devil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

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  Girl, Stars, Moon

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.210, Scholastic UK

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• Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

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  Games, Life Is, Striking Out

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• My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

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  Teacher, Butterfly, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

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  Shy, Want, Be Kind

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• I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?

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  Two, Roots, Tools

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.

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  Alive, Wintergirls

  "Wintergirls". Book by Laurie Halse Anderson, 2009.

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• Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

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  Thinking, Doe, Nobody Knows

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.34, Scholastic UK

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• Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.

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  Art, Men, Guy

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

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  Men, Be A Man

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

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  Children, People, Transition

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• Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

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  Strong, Spring, Winter

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.180, Macmillan

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• be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

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  Aggressive

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.130, Macmillan

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• I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

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  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.

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  Hate, Heart, Sleep

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.154, Penguin

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• I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.

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  Thinking, Ugly

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

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  Turkeys, Memorial, Bird

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.61, Macmillan

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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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  Answers, Tricks, Interrogation

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.26, Penguin

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

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  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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• Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.

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  Morning, Fall, Night

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