Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 4

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• I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

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  People, Get Better, Speak

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

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  Mean, Sound, Revision

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• I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

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  Dad, Flower, Keys

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.

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  Awake, I Can

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.177, Penguin

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• I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

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  School, Two, Nuclear

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.14, Macmillan

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• When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

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  Life Sucks, Ifs

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• I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

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  Teacher, Book, Taken

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• Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

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  Mean, Adults, Want

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.108, Scholastic UK

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• You must walk alone to find your soul.

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  Soul, Speak, Walks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

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  Perfect, Interesting, Tree

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

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  Strong, Mirrors, Self

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Having a friend made everything else suck less.

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  Made

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2003). “Catalyst”, p.138, Penguin

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

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  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

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  Book, Pages, Wanted

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I cry to let everything out

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  Cry

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• i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

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  Morning, Leaving, Path

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• Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

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  Should, Illegal, Gym

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.18, Macmillan

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• We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

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  Snow, Gingerbread, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.78, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Girl, Couple, Real

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

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• I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

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  Self, Trying, Teeth

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.39, Macmillan

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

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  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

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  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

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  House, Splits, Shame

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.70, Macmillan

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• I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

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  Party, School, Fake

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

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  Girl, Air, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.298, Penguin

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