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
silence heard eloquent
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
strong years sick
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.
lonely excited joyful
I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
doors mirrors locked
I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.
morning fall night
Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.
answers want doe
What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.
morning play kitchen
I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.
cutting animal play
Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.
safe has-beens
There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.
firsts scream bigs
She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.
too-much cheeseburger models
I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.
sadness soul bees
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
differences making-a-difference speak
Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.
stars moon blood
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.