You must walk alone to find your soul.
Laurie Halse AndersonMr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.
Laurie Halse AndersonStichwörter: tree speak young-adult-fiction lauri-halse-anderson
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.
Laurie Halse AndersonThey say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.
Laurie Halse AndersonIT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
Laurie Halse AndersonStichwörter: acceptance fears reality-of-life
I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?
Laurie Halse AndersonStichwörter: humor china garden digging
You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.
Laurie Halse AndersonThe parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles. I am the Victim.
Mom: [creepy smile] “Thought you could put one over us, did you, Melinda? Big high school students now, don’t need to show your homework to your parents, don’t need to show any failing test grades?”
Dad: [bangs table, silverware jumps] “Cut the crap. She knows what’s up. The interim reports came today. Listen to me, young lady. I’m only going to say this to you once. You get those grades up or your name is mud. Hear me? Get them up!” [Attacks baked potato.]
Stichwörter: funny-arnold
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.
In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.
Stichwörter: funny
Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to help.
Stichwörter: life inspirational friendship
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