Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

“I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.”

“My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I misse...”

“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. Thi...”

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”

“It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.”

“I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.”

“She 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 country!" "...”

“Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.”

“In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curv...”

“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce ...”

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

“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 a...”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.”

“The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.”

“IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.”

“The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhalethere it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasnt sure w...”

“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Jus...”

“Why are you being so mean?Friends tell friends the truth.Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.”

“Having a friend made everything else suck less.”