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

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
– Laurie Halse Anderson

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  1. I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  2. It doesn’t hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  3. The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds. – Pete Townshend
  4. If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board – Philippe Ris
  5. I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  6. Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  7. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  8. I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page – Laurie Halse Anderson
  9. Dr. StupidParker says that when I’m sad it really means I’m angry and when I’m angry it really means I’m afraid. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  10. Killing people is easier than it should be.- Dad put on his beret. -œStaying alive is harder. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  11. Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  12. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values…. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  13. Could he hear my heart pounding? – Laurie Halse Anderson
  14. I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  15. I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  16. Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  17. I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  18. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn’t think I would make it. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  19. Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  20. It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  21. The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  22. Why are you being so mean?--œFriends tell friends the truth.--œYeah, but not to hurt. To help. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  23. Having a friend made everything else suck less. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  24. Tell me this is a nightmare – Laurie Halse Anderson
  25. It doesn’t matter where I go, I don’t want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don’t want to be there either. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  26. I could never hate you, even if I wanted to. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  27. I have never heard a more eloquent silence. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  28. Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you’re scared. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  29. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  30. I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  31. I can’t do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  32. It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  33. Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  34. Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. – CJ Anderson
  35. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
  36. Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles. – Debasish Mridha
  37. I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am. – Dejan Stojanovic
  38. He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they’re made out of water, about to drip down his face. – Veronica Roth
  39. One Smile makes two Smiles and two makes many Smiles so keep Smiling 🙂 :). – Bhago
  40. Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for. – Caroline Mitchell

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