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Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature.She was first recognized for her novel Speak, published in 1999. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. October 1961  •  Other names لاوری هالس اندرسن
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Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Twisted

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Variant: 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 beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Source: Wintergirls

“I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something?”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Twisted

“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

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Prom

“I am thawing.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E
A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“My earbuds were in, but I wasn't playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Variant: I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Twisted

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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!”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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 Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak