“The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Have you considered what you might do to help? You have recovered, so you cannot get the fever again. You are young… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I embarked on a campaign of honey and kindness, which, if you've never tried it, is very hard to do with someone… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But… — 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
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
“Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I… — 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
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
“She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin wrinkling, but I'm supposed to… — 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
“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so... silent. Empty.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — 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
