532 Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree.Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them

Afraid that my head might burst through the roof, I head for the mall. I have ten bucks in my pocket—what to spend it on? French fries—ten bucks’ worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

too many grown-ups tell kids to followtheir dreamslike that's going to get them somewhereAuntie Laurie says follow your nightmares insteadcuz when you figure out what's eating you aliveyou can slay it

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.

When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles