I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. Laurie Halse Anderson More Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson More Quotes From Laurie Halse Anderson She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite. Laurie Halse Anderson scream bigs firsts Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. Laurie Halse Anderson strong winter spring There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see. Laurie Halse Anderson sick people I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground. Laurie Halse Anderson awful trouble say-anything The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone. Laurie Halse Anderson be-kind shy want It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. Laurie Halse Anderson maps this-life knowing CONJUGATE THIS: Laurie Halse Anderson dio cutting class I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. Laurie Halse Anderson anorexia cancer wish Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. Laurie Halse Anderson revision sound mean Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again. Laurie Halse Anderson morning night fall I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start. Laurie Halse Anderson skins looks thinking They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean Laurie Halse Anderson my-boyfriend dad mean Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something. Laurie Halse Anderson gone forever life I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it. Laurie Halse Anderson ugly thinking I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. Laurie Halse Anderson understood earthquakes There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did. Laurie Halse Anderson why-not asking-why believe They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry. Laurie Halse Anderson faults skins together They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. Laurie Halse Anderson couple air kids I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle? Laurie Halse Anderson writing kids book Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here. Laurie Halse Anderson cutting play animal
