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There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
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Laurie Beth Halse
Nothing
Really
People
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Wrong

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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.
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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?
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I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.
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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. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.
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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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Bologna girl, that's me.
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I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
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I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
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My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.
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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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We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.
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This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.
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Kids are mostly very resilient.
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
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Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
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The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
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Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.
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I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
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