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They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: They yell at me because
The next time you work on your trees, don't think about trees. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage
whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat or your toes curl.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The next time you work
The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The warped perception of time
Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Had she ever enjoyed anything?
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.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I knew it!
Keep home in your heart, where no one can steal it.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Keep home in your heart,
I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. 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.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I lift my arm out
So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: So, she tells me, the
Write about the emotions you fear the most.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Write about the emotions you
It's amazing any thing survives.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: It's amazing any thing survives.
A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween?
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: A group of little creatures
I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I am locked into the
A member of the Archery Club tries to say that we are all foreigners and we should give the country back to the Native Americans, but she's buried under disagreement.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: A member of the Archery
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: We swore sacred oaths to
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The feedback I get is
TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I don't reread my books
I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I stuff my mouth with
It's always there - fear - and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: It's always there - fear
Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting."
I fought a smile. "A trained assassin who babysits."
"Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Few people know this, but
I get caught up in the excitement and clap like a little girl.

This is my mistake, thinking I belong. I should have bolted for home immediately. But I don't. I hang around. I want to be a part of it all.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I get caught up in
Has she received any letters from Lockton?'
The question hit me like a bucket of cold water. 'You asking me to spy again?'
'Listen,' he started, 'Our freedom-'
I did not let him continue. 'You are blind. They don't want us free. They just want liberty for themselves.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Has she received any letters
Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Eating was hard. Breathing was
We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: We are studying American history
The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The room does not smell
Have you considered what you might do to help? You have recovered, so you cannot get the fever again. You are young and strong. We have a real need for you."
"How can I help anyone? I'm just a girl." As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I wanted to pinch myself. The first time anyone treats me like a woman and I respond like an infant.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Have you considered what you
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: We have to acknowledge that
Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Why? You want to know
The school board banned one of Maya Angelou's books, so the librarian had to take down her poster.

I fished it out of the trash.

She must be a great writer if the school board is scared of her.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The school board banned one
I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I can't do everything for
I swallowed the fear. It's always there– fear– and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, "Yeah, you're bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I swallowed the fear. It's
I wake up breathing dirt. I cough and spit out the pebbles in my mouth, but when I inhale again, wet clots of clay fill my lungs.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I wake up breathing dirt.
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.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I see IT in the
I am an iceberg drifting toward the edge of the map.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I am an iceberg drifting
But I had never seen a first aid kit for the spirit...
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: But I had never seen
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 such a good job, we lose track of reality.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I believe that you've created
Welcome to the only class that will teach you to how to survive
Welcome to Art.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Welcome to the only class
Plants make way more seeds than they need, because they know that life is not perfect and all the seeds won't make it.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Plants make way more seeds
There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: There is a beast in
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: If I can write a
I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I can't tell anymore when
Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Nicole can do anything that
Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Homework is not an option.
No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares."
"She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?"
As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far.
"Matilda!" Mother rose from her chair. "You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: No. Absolutely not. I forbid
weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld,
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld,
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Why not spend that time
I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it's over, and I'm not going to think about it.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I am not going to
I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I stand in the center
I know how bad you feel. Trapped," she says. "It gets better, I promise. So much better.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I know how bad you
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Fracture lines etch the surface
I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I've written in every imaginable
Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Gossip is the foul smell
Take your age the first time a stranger touched
your body with danger in his hands,
evil-minded...

But it's not usually a stranger, is it<
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Take your age the first
Why don't you want to see your mom? Did she burn your
dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?"
"She wants to run my life," I explain.
"What a bitch. It's like she thinks she's your mother
or something."
"She's a psychopath," I said. "It's complicated."
"Psychopaths can't afford fur coats."
"This one can.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Why don't you want to
I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I knew I wouldn't get
Maybe your son didn't get that job because he's not good enough. Or he's lazy. Or the other guy was better than him, no matter what his skin color. I think the white people who have been here for two hundred years are the ones pulling down the country. They don't know how to work - they've had it too easy
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Maybe your son didn't get
I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I nod like I'm listening,like
I have survived. I am here.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I have survived. I am
Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn't even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Leaning against my father, the
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 Quotes: Emma is a mattress who
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I am super proud of
Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination.
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 ripped off my eyelids.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Here stands a girl clutching
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Revision means throwing out the
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Do I want to die
When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: When life sucks, read. They
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.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: There's no point in asking
Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place ... Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Everyone is born a freak,
I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I had let down my
When I was a real girl, my mother fed me her glass dreams one spoonful at a time. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Duke. Undergrad. Med school. Internship, residency, God. She'd brush my hair and braid it with long words, weaving the Latin roots and Greek branches into my head so memorizing anatomy would come easy.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: When I was a real
The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The books I'd checked out
I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I'm just going to pretend
Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Our culture has the expectation
Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Gloaming,
But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: But that's the wrong question.
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Sometimes being an adult means
I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I am spinning the silk
I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read. Heaven.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I'd treat myself to a
I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I'm a big 'Star Trek'
You gonna spend the rest of your days whining because you dad's a jerk? I hate people like that. Don't be a baby - live your own life.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: You gonna spend the rest
Mandatory community service seemed like hypocrisy,
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Mandatory community service seemed like
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I needed to hear the
Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Gym should be illegal. It's
I don't know anything. My trees suck.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I don't know anything. My
A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: A teacher (a good teacher)
Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Because I am still a
Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Superheroes work the hardest when
I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can't see through it.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I try to read while
Rape wounds deeply, splits open
your core with shrapnel.
The stench of the injury attracts maggots
which hatch into clouds of doubt and self-loathing
the dirt you feel inside you nourishes
anxiety, depression, and shame
poisoning your blood, festering
in your brain until you will do anything to stop
feeling the darkness rising within
anything
to stop feeling–

untreated pain
is a cancer of the soul
that can kill you
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Rape wounds deeply, splits open<br
Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: Look in a mirror and
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: You know how sometimes you
We'd itch the vermin feasting on our flesh and share the day's many rumors:
The King had declared peace.
No, the King was sending German and Russian mercenaries to destroy us.
A ball of fire as big as a man's head fell from heaven to Hatboro - a good omen. But there'd been an earthquake near York just as a cat gave birth to puppies, which meant the worst.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: We'd itch the vermin feasting
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I reach for funny books
She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: She offered herself to the
The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: The winds of the desert
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: He doesn't see my breasts
There was a loud shuffling above. A line of redcoats took their position at the edge of the ravine and aimed down at the rebels.
"Present!" the British officer screamed to his men.
"Present!" yelled the American officer. His men brought the butts of their muskets up to their shoulders and sighted down the long barrels, ready to shoot and kill.
I pressed my face into the earth, unable to plan a course of escape. My mind would not be mastered and thought only of the wretched, lying, foul, silly girl who was the cause of everything.
I thought of Isabel and I missed her.
"FIRE!
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: There was a loud shuffling
No wonder the zombies were crazy. They thought they were supposed to practice breeding before they learned how to do their own laundry. They talked about it, thought about it, maybe did it, all while going through the motions of attending class and learning stuff so that they could go forth and become productive adults. Whatever that was supposed to mean.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: No wonder the zombies were
That's pretty good, for a young girl
from Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: That's pretty good, for a
I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so ... silent. Empty.
Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes: I can never tell with
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