Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

#1. I have survived. I am here.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Gerry Spence

#5. 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

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. What has Iraq done to us?

Janeane Garofalo

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Patricia Bellomo

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Joseph Joubert

#15. 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

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. 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

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

Laurie Halse Anderson