Laurie Halse Anderson: Trending quotes (page 3)

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

“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”

“Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!”

“I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.”

“Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it…. Someone just ripped off my eyelids.”

“He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.”

“Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.”

“I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.”

“Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to help.”

“I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.”

“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”

“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of
the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.”

“I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.”

“She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.”

“I'm learning how to taste everything.”

“A scar is a sign of strength… the sign of a survivor.”

“You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.”

“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.”

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