I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating icecream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl...
Laurie Halse AndersonEverybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.
Laurie Halse AndersonHairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?
Laurie Halse AndersonI closed my eyes and let my enemy win.
Laurie Halse AndersonI'm not wearing this!" I shouted.
"Wear it or die," Mom shouted back.
If that was life, then it was twisted.
Laurie Halse AndersonI wish I were three feet tall and he could pick me up and he still had a beard and he wore cotton sweaters that felt soft on my cheek and I could cry it all away and I would wipe my tears on his shoulder and I could suck my thumb and suck the end of my ponytail and he wouldn't tell me only babies did that and he would rock me on the front porch with the wind coming clean from the north and he would sing nursery rhymes with made-up words like Mom used to and he could teach me the alphabet again and how to walk and how to run and maybe I would do it better this time.
Laurie Halse AndersonPicasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.
Laurie Halse AndersonI can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.
Laurie Halse AndersonTags: soul-searching
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.
Laurie Halse AndersonTags: high-school
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