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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

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

Want Enough Play Bigs Young Easy Dark Perfect Secret Mom Block Grades Length Fifth Leashes Fifth Grade Deep Dark Dark Secrets

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can Helping Hands Memories Mistake Quiet Guilt Good Things Beast Help Me Guts Closest Galaxy Transfers Dump Ribs Stay With Me Warp Quiet Place Scraping

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

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

Want Bird Dinner Turkeys Memorial

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.”

Want America Air Journey Team Baby Horse Raises South Fallen Covered Fists Goats Pumps My Baby Wagons South America

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.”

Want Doe Answers Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”

Want Dies Eating Eating Disorder Wanting To Die I Want To Die

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”

Want Years Strong Sick Tiny Anorexia Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.”

Want School Together Mother Energy Bits Rooms Watches Too Much Car Stupid Standing Towns Kitchen Graveyard Motels

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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?”

Want Mind Would Be Sleep Nice Being Nice Amnesia Coma Want To Sleep

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.”

Want Figures Limits Grades Shy Hottest Eighth Grade Being Shy

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.”

Want Needs Heart Persons Made Might Hate Dies Sleep Cutting My Heart Normal Wake Up Bones Pills Going To Sleep Wanting To Die Hate Myself

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.”

Want Needs Feels Soul Turns Cutting Drink Late Your Soul Poison Maintaining Rotting Puke Anesthetics

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.”

Want Girl Space Secret Boys Walking Bones Halls Toilets Daylight Thighs Space Between That Girl Porcelain Wintergirls

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Ifs Want Mean Sometimes Adults What You Want Right Thing Doing The Right Thing

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

Want Kind Left Good Things Shy Be Kind Bugs Left Alone

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”

Want Dies Sleep Wake Up Going To Sleep Wanting To Die Wintergirls

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Want Feelings Lying Speak Tvs Communication Easier Lips Buttons Traps Crap Say Anything Expressing Feelings

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.”

Want Doe Self Bigs Used Three Sound Voice Deals Talking Tvs Lawyer Cop Clients Say Anything Not Talking

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.”

Knows Want Long Two Three Steps Clothes Skins Glasses Injury Bubbles Salt Wire Underwear Woven Razors Spun Coarse Self Injury Tanning Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”

Knows World Want Listening Needed

Book:Prom

Source: Prom

About the Author

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

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