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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.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
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Dio
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I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
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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.
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Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.
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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.
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Write about the emotions you fear the most.
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I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.
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Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
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I'm learning how to taste everything.
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be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E
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There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
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i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
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Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
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We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
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Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.
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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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I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?
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