Laurie Halse Anderson Life Quotations

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

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.

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.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.