Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

#1. I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

Rob Zombie

#2. It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

Jim Ryun

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#6. Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Joseph Joubert

#7. Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before
the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.

David Levithan

#9. Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare.

Patricia Bellomo

#10. I have survived. I am here.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?"
I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it."
"Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it.

Richelle Mead

#12. Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. What has Iraq done to us?

Janeane Garofalo

#14. You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Alanis Morissette

#16. To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing.

Gerry Spence

#17. I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.

Douglas Coupland

#18. I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.

Laurie Halse Anderson