Feels Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

12 Feels quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Anderson’s voice captures the raw pulse of growing up, and twelve short reflections give a clear sense of how she frames feeling as both challenge and catalyst for change.

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I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

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“For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and…

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Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl.…

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I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've…

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Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

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They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my…

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You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma…

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I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring…

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Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and…

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I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle…

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Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I…

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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco…

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I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for…

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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…

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Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my…

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I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

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“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

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I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

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“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to…

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I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

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