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M.T. Anderson

(1968) Writer

90 quotes in 111 categories

M.T. Anderson writes about fear turning into resolve that pushes people to heights they could not reach on familiar paths. He contrasts strangers who can judge without reproach with loved ones, and he shows characters using songs or chants to lift spirits in difficult moments. He also captures moments of self‑applause while running through woods, highlighting how humor and bravery mix.

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M.T. Anderson is a writer.

Quick Facts About M.T. Anderson

Born: November 4, 1968
Profession: Writer

About M.T. Anderson

American children's writer... | Matthew Tobin Anderson is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "Octavian Nothing" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era B

Quotes by M.T. Anderson

“I looked over at her face. I could see the light from my heartbeat on her tears.”

Heartbeat

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“Other people just have fun. They have fun, and it comes naturally to them.”

Having fun

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“ Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom. ”

Freedom

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“The hand that records is also what makes everything unclear.”

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“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we…

Altitudes

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“Because we ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.”

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“My boy — we are a tiny race . . . involved in a vast pursuit . . . amidst the cold…

Astronomy

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“We could sing to lift our spirits,’ one of them suggested. Believe me, you want me to end the chapter now.”

Humor

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“Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you…

Absurdity

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“It does not take long to die, nor to kill. A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed…

Death

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“I have this weird, bad feeling," said another boy. "In my feeling parts. Like something bad is going to happen.”

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“was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could…

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“I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would…

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“People ask me whether I feel any hope for the future. I want to say to you: Yes, I do. I absolutely…

Hope

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“Your name is Chet? Chet the Celestial Being?" "Look," he says. "I don't need this." "Do you really think I'm becoming a…

Humor

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“Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don’t know any of that. We have…

Sledding

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“Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take…

Music

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“You know who you should ask about this? My pal Ray, who works with me. He could tell you all about this."…

Hands tied

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“ We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar…

Calamity

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“The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called…

British army

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“I declare it well befits me to thank our God for simpler pleasures than these, than teak or gold or India cloth.…

Freedom

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“Oh, I don’t know about you, but I really hate chase scenes. It’s all just chase, chase, chase, up the staircase, down…

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“Do not speak glibly of virtue. Nothing shall change-nothing-so long as each individual awaits preferment rather than embodying beneficence in himself; so…

Character

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“It was a strange moment, like when you get sad after sex, and it feels like it's too late in the afternoon,…

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“Jasper!’ said Katie. ‘Your machine was supposed to be making duplicate copies of all of the things that were photocopied during the…

Computers

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“And I thought of the Transit of Venus: that though the bodies be vast and distant, and their motions occult, their hesitations…

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“If you have read many adventure novels, you'll know that spies spend about half of their time in the sewers. They run…

Adventure

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“He was possessed of a belief that nothing existed, or to be more precise, that only when things were perceived could we…

Business

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“The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the…

Grief

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“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So…

Consumerism

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“Each of us hides our own private Delaware lost in the gray jungle-tangle of our brains. No one else can know its…

Setting Sun

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“He held out the written pass. "This is what they want us to be," he said. "They want us to be nothing…

Inner journey

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“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any…

Books

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“This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear.…

Revolutionary war

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“A man in a topiary maze cannot judge of the twistings and turnings, and which avenue might lead him to the heart;…

Death

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“When we got there, Calista and Loga were getting out of Calista's car, and it was like, Whoa, because they were wearing…

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“Her slippers went fitik, fitik, sliss, fitik, on the floors. They were soft sounds, like the sounds mouths make when they open…

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“I came into the world alone.” She picked up her shoe and scratched the crust out of the tread. She said, “I…

Scratched

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“Hold on to your hats, ladies!’ cried Jasper Dash. ‘You’re in for a wild ride! This futuristic buggy can attain speeds of…

Humor

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“Who do we seek, my spies? Again and again, I announce to the world: I. M. Realdom! I. M. Realdom! I. M.…

Spies

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