Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know.

I closed my eyes and let my enemy win.

I didn't fit.I was a different size, a different shape. I kept trying to squeeze into a body, a skin suit, that was too small. It rubbed me the wrong way. I blistered. I callused. I scarred over and i...

I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.

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 c...

I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just s...

I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree i...

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

If that was life, then it was twisted.

If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. If the president was back, we were safe.I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek.He pulled back in surprise.Do you...

In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sport cars on their sixteenth birthdays, Teachers smile at them and grade them on the curve....

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have...

It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

It takes more to scare me now.

I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

I’ve got a cake rising, Eliza said. I’m not leaving that for any man

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