I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“I hate winter. I’ve lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting… — 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… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn your dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?” “She wants… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I can't believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It's a shame we can't just admit that we have failed… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“A scream starts in my gut—I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair. I don’t remember passing out.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The number doesn't matter. If I got down to 070.00, I'd want to be 065.00. If I weight 010.00, I wouldn't be… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I bet they’d be divorced by now if I hadn’t been born. I’m sure I was a huge disappointment. I’m not pretty… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I think about lying down. No, that would not do. I crouch by the trunk, my fingers stroking the bark, seeking a… — 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
