“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.”Laurie Halse Anderson WintergirlsSource: Wintergirls
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”Laurie Halse Anderson SpeakSource: Speak
“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”Laurie Halse Anderson SpeakSource: Speak
“I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.”Laurie Halse Anderson WintergirlsSource: Wintergirls
“Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.”Laurie Halse Anderson WintergirlsSource: Wintergirls
“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”Laurie Halse Anderson SpeakSource: 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 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 WintergirlsSource: Wintergirls
“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 SpeakSource: Speak