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From Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels…
- You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a story.…
- Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
- Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
- My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her…
- 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…
- This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats…
- Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
- I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room,…
- I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries…
- Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.…
- It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it…
- We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters.…
- There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When…
- Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us…
- Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.
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