Laurie Halse Anderson quotes - page 7

The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. View quote
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People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to. View quote
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You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years. View quote
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Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere. View quote
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Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder. View quote
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wats yr typ? people who can spell. View quote
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When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. View quote
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Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. View quote
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My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. View quote
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I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I am thawing. View quote
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The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction. 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. View quote
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That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books. View quote
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You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track. View quote
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I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.' View quote
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The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. View quote
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book. View quote
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I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change. View quote
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Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. View quote
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Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men. View quote
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You must walk alone to find your soul. View quote
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It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow. View quote
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