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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
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Laurie Beth Halse
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I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.
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None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
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I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.
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Kids are mostly very resilient.
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The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
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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.
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I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
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I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
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The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
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Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.
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The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.
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She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.
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They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.
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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
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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.
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I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
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The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
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I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.
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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
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