I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. Furthermore, I know everything.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with an S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

— Laurie Halse Anderson