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.
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. - Laurie Halse Anderson
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Write about the emotions you fear the most. - Laurie Halse Anderson
Write about the emotions you fear the most.
You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of you… - Laurie Halse Anderson
You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of you…
You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against. - Laurie Halse Anderson
You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.
Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself. - Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. - Laurie Halse Anderson
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. - Laurie Halse Anderson
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth … - Laurie Halse Anderson
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth …
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking. - Laurie Halse Anderson
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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