Laurie Halse Anderson quotes - page 5

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. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. View quote
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Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door. View quote
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I cry to let everything out. View quote
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None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. View quote
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They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed. View quote
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I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am.... It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother? View quote
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I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
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. View quote
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I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... View quote
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I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. View quote
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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. View quote
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Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. View quote
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I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am." She nods her head slowly. "What do you think you‘d look like?” "Smaller, for a start. View quote
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I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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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. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. View quote
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Kids are mostly very resilient. View quote
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Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. View quote
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I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life. View quote
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