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Cutting Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson
- I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
- Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my…
- I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at…
- Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be…
- A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches…
- I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.…
- I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good…
- I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats,…
- Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you…
- Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life…
- Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on…
More Cutting Quotes
- Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do… — Darren Aronofsky
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's… — Iain Banks
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times… — Bernard Baruch