Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1961
CountryUnited States of America
pain stronger battle
Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.
cutting climbing ribs
Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs....
wind soul faces
This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
reading class symbolism
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?
differences listening communicate
I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.
tree doubt screwed-up
I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'
made
Having a friend made everything else suck less.
digging-a-hole rest-of-life digging
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
talking long speak
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
no-friends way speak
Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.
skins lines three
I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
drawing
They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.
bad confused hitting kids miserable parents seeking teenagers
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
bad exist pretend
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.