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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 918fbfe | Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6a8a777 | 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. Mr. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8328f34 | I get out of bed and take down the mirror. I put it in the back of my closet, facing the wall. OUR | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 605e101 | Now you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always breeding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy - you've suffered far too much. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 19656d9 | Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d14e4a1 | The rest of the class looked away. He [Jonas} was a quiet freak, not a zombie. The horde would not protect him. They'd stand by and watch the culling. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 03d9d91 | She wants to hear all about our day, how long I've lived in town, and asks little sideways questions about my parents, so she can figure out if I'm the kind of friend she wants for her daughter. I don't mind. I think it's nice that she cares. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8b5be20 | My job is to nod or shake my head, to say "I know what you mean," when I don't, and "That is so unfair," when it isn't." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d316090 | Every single day, someone asks Mr. Stetman why we have to learn algebra. You can tell this causes him great personal pain. Mr. Stetman loves algebra. He is poetic about it, in an integral-number sort of way. He talks about algebra the way some guys talk about their cars. Ask him why algebra and he launches into a thousand and one stories why algebra. None of them makes sense. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 52b10c1 | Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 53ff8c7 | It's harder to take a punch than to give one. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 19f0f73 | It's an antique mirror with little waves on the surface of it. Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Other times, it makes you look like a pig. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e2e37d7 | To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more... | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 91fc071 | It is a pretend question, one he asked so he could give the answer. I relax. This is like when my father complains about his boss. The best thing to do is to stay awake and blink sympathetically. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d6b9f9f | Mr. Neck writes on the board again: "DEBATE: America should have closed her borders in 1900." That strikes a nerve. Several nerves. I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great-grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. When they figure out they would have been stuck in a country that hated them, or a place with no schools, or a place with .. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5dde9cf | I bet they'd be divorced by now if I hadn't been born. I'm sure I was a huge disappointment. I'm not pretty or smart or athletic. I'm just like them--an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies. I can't believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It's a shame we can't just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7172fad | Principal Principal stormed in yesterday, smelling pleasure. His mustache moved up and down, a radar sweep for all things unruly. An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b453165 | For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 4a53fce | Thanksgiving was in trouble. It needed... A SUPERHERO! No, not that kind. Thanksgiving needed a superhero, someone bold and brave and stubborn and smart. Thanksgiving needed Sarah Hale. Now, I know what you're thinking. She doesn't look like a superhero. She looks like a dainty little lady. Never underestimate dainty little ladies. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 55742fb | Never underestimate dainty little ladies. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 89a18d3 | Sarah Hale was every inch a superhero. Not only did she fight for Thanksgiving, she fought for playgrounds for kids, schools for girls, and historical monuments for everyone. She argued against spanking, pie for breakfast, dull stories, corsets and bloomers and bustles, and very serious things like slavery. As if that weren't enough, she raised five children; wrote poetry, children's books, novels, and biographies; was the first female mag.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| da90b70 | How did she do all of these things? She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. And Sarah Hale had a secret weapon... | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7320d6f | How did she do all of these things? She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. And Sarah Hale had a secret weapon... When Sarah saw something she didn't like, she picked up her pen and wrote about it. She wrote letters. She wrote articles. She wrote and wrote and wrote until she persuaded people to make the world a better place. Nothing stopped Sarah. Sarah Hale loved Thanksgiving. She wanted the whole country to celebrate it on the same day.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5db4a82 | There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 47a3995 | Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b583063 | Sarah wrote to the president himself, Zachary Taylor. He refused. Did that stop Sarah? No! She waited for the next election and wrote to the new president, Millard Fillmore. He said no, too. Did that stop Sarah? No! She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. Sarah wrote to the next president, Franklin Pierce. Wouldn't a national day of thanksgiving be wonderful? No, Pierce grumped. Sarah penned an elegant letter to President James Buchanan.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8f2db58 | Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 2a56516 | She picked up her mighty pen and wrote another letter, this time to President Abraham Lincoln. America needed Thanksgiving, now more than ever. A holiday wouldn't stop the war, but it could help bring the country together. She signed the letter, folded it, and slid it into an envelope. She wrote Mr. Lincoln's name and address on the envelope and stuck on a stamp. She mailed the letter. She waited. And she waited. And then... LINCOLN SAID YE.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1771f0c | 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. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e3585fa | Mi sgridano perche non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro. | anorexia bulimia inspirational mia wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 2bf39e0 | Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita. Danzavamo con le streghe e baciavamo i mostri. Ci trasformammo in ragazze d'inverno e, quando lei cerco di andar via, la spinsi di nuovo nella neve perche avevo paura di restare da sola. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6d404d4 | Si sente urlare dal campo, bambine di nove anni che si caricano psicologicamente per vincere. Il calcio professionale per bambini e duro. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 761d62c | Could he hear my heart pounding? | nervous pounding | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 58c660b | I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 118c2e9 | Per loro sono una bambola cresciuta troppo. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3ec84ec | You think you know everything about Thanksgiving, don't you? ...How the Native Americans saved the Pilgrims from starving... How the Pilgrims held a big feast to celebrate and say thank you: turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberries--the works. Well, listen up. I have a news flash... WE ALMOST LOST...THANKSGIVING! Didn't know that, did you? It's true. Way, way back, when skirts were long and hats were tall, Thanksgiving was fading away. Sure, the fo.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 12123b4 | Mr. Freeman says fear is a great place to begin art. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a0624ee | Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 81c804b | I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1b97fd7 | He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| dbe59e5 | My bed is sending out serious nap rays. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ae55b0b | I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 011b789 | Mom closes her eyes. Her skin is a flat gray color, like underwear that has been washed so many times it's about to fall apart. I feel bad that I didn't fold more shirts for her. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8eb3641 | Keep breathing. It took a few minutes but I won. The grey pulled away from my eyes in ribbons and whispered that it would be back soon. | panic-attack | Laurie Halse Anderson |