79 Quotes by Matthew Tobin Anderson

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'