Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes - Page 9

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

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  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

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  Borders, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.181, Scholastic UK

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

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  Girl, Pieces, Steam

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

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  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

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  Girl, Eye, Way

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.64, Penguin

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• Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

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  Strong, Years, Sick

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.33, Scholastic UK

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

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  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

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  Tree, Doubt, Screwed Up

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

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• The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.

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  Stars, Moon, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.149, Scholastic UK

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• Bologna girl, that's me.

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  Girl, Bologna

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.127, Macmillan

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• I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

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  Skins, Lines, Three

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.60, Scholastic UK

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• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

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  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

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  Cutting, Climbing, Ribs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

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• I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

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  Too Much, Cheeseburger, Models

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

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  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

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  Fighting, America, Judging

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

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  Eye, Different, Because I Can

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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• i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?

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  Summer, Daughter, Cousin

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• Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can’t let go of the past.

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  Letting Go, Memories, Cutting

  "Laurie Halse Anderson Thinks Adults Should Be Reading More YA". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

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  Mom, Running, Dad

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.87, Macmillan

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

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  Reading, Class, Symbolism

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• They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

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  Drawing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.72, Macmillan

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• I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

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  Hurt, Moving, Stronger

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

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• The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

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  Country, Son, Rights

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.56, Macmillan

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• I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

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  Digging A Hole, Rest Of Life, Digging

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.31, Scholastic UK

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