Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 6

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• Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.

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  Blood, Glitter, Excitement

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2007). “Twisted”, p.57, Penguin

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

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  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

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  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

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  Zero, Numbers, Tennis

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

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  Eating Disorder, Skinny, Cry

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

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• You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat- ing heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.

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  Heart, Missing, Wicked

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• Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

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  Cutting, Soul, Poison

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

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  Blood, Hands, Snow

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

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• Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

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  Girl, Believe, Teeth

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

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  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

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

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• It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

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  Knowing, Maps, This Life

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

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  People, Sick

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

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  Self, Talking, Voice

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

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• It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

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  Notebook, Morning, Hate

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.3, Macmillan

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• I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

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  Silence, Heard, Eloquent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

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  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

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• I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.

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  Together, Lips, Wake Up

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• I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.

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  Memories, Ocean, Mean

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

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• I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

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  Attitude, School, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

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  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

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  Couple, Kids, Air

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• 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.

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  Mom, Eye, Thinking

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

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• I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

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  Listening, World, Want

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

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  Breathe, Breaths, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

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• This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

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  Army, Hammers, Trials

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2012). “Forge”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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