Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls Quotes

#1. What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

James Comey

#2. We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. 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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

Bear Bryant

#8. When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice, so we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

Akiane Kramarik

#9. Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?"
"I notice when you're not. Does that count?

Melina Marchetta

#10. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?

Matt Taibbi