It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
– Laurie Halse Anderson
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- If I had to marry someone, it wouldn’t be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow. – Jim Thompson
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- Killing people is easier than it should be.- Dad put on his beret. -œStaying alive is harder. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The War,’ said a soldier proverb, ‘will last a hundred years–five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire. – Preston William Slosson
- Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers. – Amit Ray
- The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it. – Jim Thompson
- But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken. – AG Howard
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- 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
- Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle. – Laurie Halse Anderson
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- 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
- This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values…. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Could he hear my heart pounding? – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- It doesn’t hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn’t think I would make it. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Why are you being so mean?--œFriends tell friends the truth.--œYeah, but not to hurt. To help. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Having a friend made everything else suck less. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tell me this is a nightmare – Laurie Halse Anderson
- 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
- I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I could never hate you, even if I wanted to. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- I have never heard a more eloquent silence. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you’re scared. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- 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
- I can’t do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul. – Laurie Halse Anderson
- You can’t admit to someone else what you’re too damn afraid to admit to yourself. – Beth Lewis
- Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can’t bring myself to floss. – Stephen Chbosky
- Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. – Matt Chandler
- An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader. – Tucker Elliot