Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 5

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

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  Mistake, Apology, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

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  Sacrifice, Bird, Wonderful

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

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  Book, Writing, Kids

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

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• So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

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  Coffee, Muffins, Cranberries

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.297, Penguin

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• She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

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  Country, School, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

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  Ducks, Upset, Daffy Duck

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• I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

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  Glowing, Sitting, Neon

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

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• There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

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  Safe, Has Beens

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.19, Penguin

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• Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

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  Breathing, Eating, Hardest

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.232, Scholastic UK

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

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  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

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  School, Wire, Easier

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.108, Macmillan

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• I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

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  Stupid, Long, Done

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.92, Scholastic UK

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• She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

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  Firsts, Scream, Bigs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Girl, Baby, Stars

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• She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

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  Life, Departed, Grandfather

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Fever 1793”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

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  Stupid, Silly, Woods

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

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  Sun, Ghost, Come Up

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Self Harm, Kids, Hard Work

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• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

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  Baby, Horse, Team

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• I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)

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  Girl, Dream, Nice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.64, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

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  Mirrors, Mouths, Bleeding

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

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  Girl, Boys, Space

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• Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.

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  Night, Lasts, Assignments

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• We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.

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  Strong, Forever, Sacred

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.36, Penguin

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• Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

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  Wish, Be Careful, Careful

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.188, Penguin

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