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Into 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…
- I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
- 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.…
- My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
- 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…
- Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in…
- I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run…
- I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a…
- I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.
- 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…
- 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…
- We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
- I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt…
- Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring…
- 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…
- 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.…
- i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
- Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I…
- I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.
- A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.
- 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…
- The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up…
- We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
- Why? You want to know why? Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and…
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