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Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes | Quotes said by Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #1

    (Even the teachers noticed. Mr. Diaz walked past my locker when Finn was there and said, For the love of all that is holy, you two, please don't breed.) Pg 149

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #2

    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 were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #3

    A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #4

    And that’s the problem. When you’re
    alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone
    cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody
    out.
    But it’s a lie.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #5

    Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #6

    Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #7

    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. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #8

    Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #9

    CONJUGATE THIS:
    I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #10

    Could he hear my heart pounding?

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #11

    Eating was hard.
    Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #12

    Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #13

    Everyone is born a freak, notes Hayley. Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #14

    Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting.
    I fought a smile. A trained assassin who babysits.
    Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #15

    Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #16

    Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #17

    Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #18

    Having a friend made everything else suck less.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #19

    Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #20

    I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #21

    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 you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
    But it's a lie.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #22

    I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #23

    I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #24

    I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #25

    I hate winter. I’ve lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #26

    I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #27

    I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #28

    I have to go. Boss has
    this weird idea that I should actually work while he’s paying
    me.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #29

    I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

  • Laurie Halse Anderson Quote #30

    I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

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