Barricade Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“she dared to attack every authority that tried to put fences around the human spirit” and”

— Kathy E. Ferguson

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“Build a barrier inside her mind, a fence to keep it out. It was just one of the boxes to tick, that’s what she…

— Holly Jackson

“When she put it that way, I felt like there were fences—built by me and by everyone in my life—around me. Fences carefully placed…

— Juliana Haygert

“... one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting too close.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“He's put a fence around her as if she were a dirty, stinking bone of a saint. If he only had the courage to…

— Henry Miller

“And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to…

— Sylvia Plath

“Mary worries about not having enough words in her head”

— Mary Szybist

“It was hope that stood beside him, hidden and protected these years in this city, and in the years before it, spirited across the…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“But most important, she had broken through that invisible wall of terror that surrounded her, and lived to tell the tale.”

— Robin Schwarz