Laurie Halse AndersonI am locked into the mirror and there is no door out. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). Wintergirls, p.166, Penguin371Reading
Laurie Halse AndersonIf I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. ✨ Laurie Halse And… ▶371Truth
Laurie Halse AndersonA scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.371Humanity
Laurie Halse AndersonI wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). Wintergirls, p.32, Scholastic UK372Truth
Laurie Halse AndersonNo, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can. ✨ Laurie Halse Ander… ▶362SadnessThought
Laurie Halse AndersonWrite about the emotions you fear the most.373Life
Laurie Halse AndersonThe constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citi… ▶362LifeTime
Laurie Halse AndersonUsed 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 thighs. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (20… ▶351Life
Laurie Halse AndersonWhen people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are… ▶363DeathHumanityLove
Laurie Halse AndersonHe doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). Wintergirls, p.192, Penguin353Death
Laurie Halse AndersonWhen people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). Speak, Puffin364DeathHumanityTime
Laurie Halse AndersonShe turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong … ▶321Life
Laurie Halse AndersonI see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibili… ▶343Truth
Laurie Halse AndersonWe tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the st… ▶344Time
Laurie Halse Andersonbe aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Speak, p.130, Macmillan311Thought
Laurie Halse AndersonThere's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is why not? I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did. ✨ Laurie Halse A… ▶344Death
Laurie Halse AndersonI don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a caree… ▶344LifeThought
Laurie Halse AndersonThere is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree an… ▶355LoveTime
Laurie Halse AndersonI scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never qui… ▶333Thought
Laurie Halse AndersonThe best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Chains, p.3, Simon and Schuster301Time
Laurie Halse AndersonI failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thi… ▶323Humor
Laurie Halse AndersonI 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 of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. So… ▶334Hope
Laurie Halse AndersonIt's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Speak, p.70, Ma… ▶312Life
Laurie Halse AndersonIT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Speak, p.198, Macmillan312Reading
Laurie Halse AndersonI make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Speak, p.14, Macmillan367Hope
Laurie Halse AndersonWhy not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can… ▶345LoveSadnessTime
Laurie Halse AndersonI was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). Twisted, p.31, Scholastic UK367Life
Laurie Halse AndersonYou have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.356Hope
Laurie Halse AndersonCold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes a… ▶345Love
Laurie Halse AndersonWe swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). Wintergirls, p.36, Penguin346Philosophy
