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
“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They… — 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
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
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
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
“Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to… — 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 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 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… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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
![“The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles. I am the Victim. Mom: [creepy smile] “Thought you could put one over us, did you, Melinda? Big high school…” quote by Laurie Halse Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb4/laurie-halse-anderson-623_art_the-parents-are-making-threatening-noise_1134061.jpg)
