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“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Twisted

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I'm learning how to taste everything.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

Source: Chains

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Variant: you are not dead, but you are not alive.
Source: Wintergirls

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak