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Just in case we forget that "weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld," we have a Job Day."
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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It was a prom dress.It was pink.It was originally seventy percent off,but Ma got it down to eighty-five percent off by screaming "My water broke!" while we were checking out"
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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c85f980
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I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.
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work
hilarious
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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9e61582
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Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "Yeah, but not to hurt. To help."
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truth
hurt
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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49bec95
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It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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aa901ce
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Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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b6908f4
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Good afternoon, Nathaniel. Kindly return my basket." "Is that all you have to say? You disappoint me. I thought you would send me sailing into the horse trough at least. I guess you respect my new position as a man of the world." "You are not a man of the world, you clean paintbrushes, though for the life of me I don't know why Mr. Peale bothers with you. And you will end up in that trough if you don't give back my basket." I paused. "Your ..
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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d02c26b
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Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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f9b81dc
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It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind.
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slavery
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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a0b95dc
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Nao existe cura magica, nem como fazer tudo desaparecer para sempre. Existem apenas pequenos passos adiante; um dia mais facil, uma risada inesperada, um espelho que nao importa mais.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face ideas. They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should've had all along.
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women-s-suffrage
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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1d651c4
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Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." "When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time"."
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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9da35c2
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Keep home in your heart, where no one can steal it.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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270c28b
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I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.
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suicide
depression
twisted
tragic
ya
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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04b272a
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The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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8110c85
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Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity. If you're tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Has she received any letters from Lockton?' The question hit me like a bucket of cold water. 'You asking me to spy again?' 'Listen,' he started, 'Our freedom-' I did not let him continue. 'You are blind. They don't want us free. They just want liberty for themselves.
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slavery
truth
american-revolution
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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914f98d
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The world turns upside down every day.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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1056617
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This is not our fight,' the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.
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slavery
politics
american-revolution
choices
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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2b85ab2
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fortifications.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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773b2e1
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The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.
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remember
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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833bae9
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It isn't August. The moon is asleep and I'm sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleepin.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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aa0b560
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LIBERTY IS EQUALLY AS PRECIOUS TO A BLACK MAN, AS IT IS TO A WHITE ONE, AND BONDAGE EQUALLY AS INTOLERABLE TO THE ONE AS IT IS TO THE OTHER . . . . AN AFRICAN, OR A NEGRO MAY JUSTLY CHALLENGE, AND HAS AN UNDENIABLE RIGHT TO HIS LIBERTY: CONSEQUENTLY, THE PRACTISE OF SLAVE-KEEPING, WHICH SO MUCH ABOUNDS IN THIS LAND IS ILLICT. --ESSAY WRITTEN BY AFRICAN AMERICAN LEMUEL HAYNES, VETERAN OF THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON E
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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e760e27
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This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?" The"
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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3e2c527
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Freedom would not be handed to us like a gift. Freedom had to be fought for and taken.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Set foot on the campus and it changes you forever. It's..." He paused like he was searching for the right word, something I'd never seen him do before." "It's Nerdvana!" he finally declared."
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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c479997
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AS THE GENERAL IS INFORMED, THAT NUMBERS OF FREE NEGROES ARE DESIROUS OF INLISTING, HE GIVES LEAVE TO THE RECRUITING OFFICERS TO ENTERTAIN THEM, AND PROMISES TO LAY THE MATTER BEFORE THE CONGRESS, WHO HE DOUBTS NOT WILL APPROVE OF IT. --GENERAL ORDERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON T
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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531bdb1
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IT WOULD BE USELESS FOR US TO DENOUNCE THE SERVITUDE TO WHICH THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WISHES TO REDUCE US, WHILE WE CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR FELLOW CREATURES IN SLAVERY JUST BECAUSE THEIR COLOR IS DIFFERENT FROM OURS. --SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DR. BENJAMIN RUSH, WHO PURCHASED WILLIAM GRUBBER IN 1776 AND DID NOT FREE HIM UNTIL 1794 O
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can't see through it.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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e2270bb
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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.
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metaphor
reassurance
life
poetic-prose
wintergirls
poetic
recovery
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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7b14e7b
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From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.) Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you? I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped. The first dozen times I heard this, I was horrified. But I heard it over and over again. I realized that many young men are not being taught the impact that ..
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sex-education
teenagers
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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8b52601
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Sono lo spazio tra le mie cosce e la luce che ci passa attraverso. Sono il topo di biblioteca che si rifugia nei romanzi fantasy. Sono il freak del circo, intrappolato nella cera d'api. Sono le ossa che vogliono, racchiuse in una cornice di porcellana.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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00837d2
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Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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021aed1
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She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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83ec7da
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But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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1ede1a0
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The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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6ff22f5
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Halloween - the day when we could pretend to be whatever we wanted - seemed to be letting everyone be who they really were.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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fdfe72c
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Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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75cac2c
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If I weren't so tired, I'd shove trust and issue down the garbage disposal and let it run all day.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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a6172fe
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I was the reason she didn't run away freshman year. I was the reason she didn't eat a bottle of sleeping pills when her boyfriend cheated on her. I listened for hours when her parents yelled and tried to stuff her into a mannequin shell that didn't fit. I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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c8ef5ee
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Tell us your secret,' the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the library aide who hides in Fantasy. I am the circus freak encased in beeswax. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. When I get close, the step back. The cameras in their eyeholes record the zit on my chin, the rain in my eyes, the blue water under my skin. They pick up every soun..
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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0728cb9
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Love messes you up and makes you do strange things
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love
page-366
mess
strange
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Laurie Halse Anderson |