Books Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“From the time she was a little biddy thing I always told her: Melinda, don’t talk to strangers. But she loved everyone. She was…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“So here’s the question,” Melinda led in. “Who’s Tall, Dark and Smoldering?”

— Julie James

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her…

— Amy Matayo

“This was insane. What was wrong with the world? Didn’t they know that ghosts and supernatural powers where little girls helped their dads and…

— Darynda Jones

“The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become…

— Marianne Williamson

“This is a book about women. This is a book about girls who had a ton of fear and personal flaws and faced insurmountable…

— Ann Shen

“She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that…

— Herman Wouk

“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking…

— Kathryn Davis

“And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror, Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place. But the girl at that school,…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as…

— George R.R. Martin