Лори Холс Андерсон цитаты страница 3

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

Источник: Speak

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”

Источник: Speak

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….”

Источник: Speak

“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.”

Источник: Speak

“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“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”

Источник: Twisted

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

Источник: Speak

“I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up. IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read..”

Источник: Speak

“Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.”

Источник: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Источник: Speak

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”

Источник: Speak

“To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.”

Источник: Speak

“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.”

Источник: Speak

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“I cry to let everything out”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“They yell at me because I can’t see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”

Источник: Speak

“There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

Источник: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

“They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.”

Laurie Halse Anderson книга Chains

Источник: Chains

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

Источник: Speak