Laurie Halse Anderson citations (147 citations, Page 3)

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Laurie Halse Anderson: Citations en anglais

“I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.”

Source: Speak

“I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

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Source: Speak

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”

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Source: Speak

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: 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.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: Twisted

“Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care… -Wintergirls”

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Laurie Halse Anderson

“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.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up. IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read..”

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“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.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“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.”

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Source: Speak

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I cry to let everything out”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“They yell at me because I can’t see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson livre Chains

Source: Chains

“They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

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Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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