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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. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. View quote
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Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. View quote
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page. View quote
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Having a friend made everything else suck less. View quote
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There is no safer. There's not even safe, never has been. View quote
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And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely. View quote
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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. View quote
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I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right. View quote
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Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! View quote
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Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model. View quote
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I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. View quote
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Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help. View quote
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Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. View quote
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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. View quote
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I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable. View quote
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Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. View quote
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