I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. — 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
