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Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author known for her young adult literature. Her works often explore the challenges and growth of adolescence, and are highly appreciated by young readers.

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Famous Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

“scars may look stronger than unwounded skin, but they're not once broken, we're hurt again, or worse”

Hurt Scars

Book:Shout

Source: Shout

“I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”

People Ifs Hurt Feet Fronts Daughter Standing It Hurts Stomping

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.”

Feels Trying Whole Helping Lying Night Fighting Hours Hurt Sleep Couple Monsters Teeth Nightmare Starving Emma Whole Family Starving Yourself

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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.”

People Problem Lying Hurt Alive Easier Eating Breaths Bones Breathe Confusion Locks Cages Eating Disorder Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Mean Helping Hurt Yeah

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

Soul Done Inspiration Hurt Chains My Soul Scar Hurt Me

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

Hurt Rooms Tiny Flash Sparrows

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls”

Thinking Made Different Body Care Pain Hurt Cutting Easier My Family Made It Flavor Stolen Self Injury Emotional Wounds Wintergirls

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.”

Ifs Littles Helping Left Hurt Lines Blood Cry Draws Window Suicide Cracks Scratches Wrists Pitiful Etching

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.”

Ifs Said Body Moving Hurt Ready Arms Bigger Stronger Yeah Shoulders Tall Broads Balanced

Book:Prom

Source: Prom

“I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.”

About the Author

Born: October 23, 1961
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 307

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