Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.

Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.

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 rippe...

How could men who liked cats be bad?

How did she do all of these things?She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. And Sarah Hale had a secret weapon…

I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the...

I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Ea...

I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do...

I dare you to punch me, I said.You? Dare me? He was laughing too hard to say anything else.I shove him. I double-dare you. If you don't have the guts to do it, you're a weenie. I shove again, harder....

I don’t know how they do it. I don’t know how anybodydoes it, waking up every morning and eating and movingfrom the bus to the assembly line, where the teacherbotsinject us with Subject A and Subject...

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

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.

I knew it! He pumps a fist into the air. You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

I nostri genitori ci danno la lista degli ingredienti e ci ricordano di fare scelte sane: uno sport, due club, un hobby artistico, impegno sociale, niente voti sotto l'8, perché sul serio, nessuno vuo...

I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.

I'm not wearing this! I shouted.Wear it or die, Mom shouted back.

If I ever form my own clan, we'll be the Anti-Cheerleaders. We will not sit in the bleachers. We will wander underneath them and commit mild acts of mayhem.

If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!