It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
“I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
“What did it feel like to die? Was it a peaceful sleep? Some thought it was full of either trumpet-blowing angels or angry devils.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share
