“If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Mr Freeman: "Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." He sticks his finger down his throat.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image