“That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)”
“That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)”
Laurie Halse Anderson
“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak“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, The Impossible Knife of Memory“Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.”
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory“We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.”
Laurie Halse Anderson“If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.”
Laurie Halse Anderson“That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.”
Laurie Halse Anderson“I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.”
Laurie Halse Anderson“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“Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.”
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