Frasi di Laurie Halse Anderson pagina 2

“I nostri genitori ci danno la lista degli ingredienti e ci ricordano di fare scelte sane: uno sport, due club, un hobby artistico, impegno sociale, niente voti sotto l'8, perché sul serio, nessuno vuol essere mediocre, non da queste parti. E' una danza dai passi complicati e con un ritmo che cambio di continuo. Io sono la ragazza che inciampa in mezzo alla pista da ballo e che non riesce a trovare l'uscita. Ho tutti gli occhi puntati addosso.”

Wintergirls

“Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita. Danzavamo con le streghe e baciavamo i mostri. Ci trasformammo in ragazze d'inverno e, quando lei cercò di andar via, la spinsi di nuovo nella neve perché avevo paura di restare da sola.”

Wintergirls

“Per loro sono una bambola cresciuta troppo.”

Wintergirls

“Stupido corpo. Che senso ha farmi crescere i peli e lasciare invece che i capelli cadano?”

Wintergirls

“Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita.”

Wintergirls

“Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti.”

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson Frasi e Citazioni

“Sono lo spazio tra le mie cosce e la luce che ci passa attraverso. Sono il topo di biblioteca che si rifugia nei romanzi fantasy. Sono il freak del circo, intrappolato nella cera d'api. Sono le ossa che vogliono, racchiuse in una cornice di porcellana.”

Wintergirls

“Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.”

Wintergirls

“Guidando verso casa sono quasi una ragazza vera.”

Wintergirls

“Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson: Frasi in inglese

“This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”

Origine: Speak

“Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.”

Origine: Speak

“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 it.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”

Origine: Speak

“If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Origine: Speak

“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.”

Origine: Speak

“The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.”

Origine: Speak

“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!”

Laurie Halse Anderson

Origine: Twisted

“I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.”

Origine: Speak

“Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it…. Someone just ripped off my eyelids.”

Origine: Speak

“He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

“Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to help.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of
the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.”

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Origine: Twisted

“I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.”

Origine: Speak

“She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I'm learning how to taste everything.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“A scar is a sign of strength… the sign of a survivor.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.”

Laurie Halse Anderson libro Chains

Origine: Chains

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Variante: you are not dead, but you are not alive.
Origine: Wintergirls

“It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.”

Origine: Speak