Frasi di Laurie Halse Anderson pagina 3

“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

“I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.”

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson: Frasi in inglese

“I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.”

Origine: Speak

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

Origine: Speak

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”

Origine: Speak

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….”

Origine: Speak

“I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.”

Origine: Speak

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care… -Wintergirls”

Origine: Twisted

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

Origine: Speak

“I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up. IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read..”

Origine: Speak

“Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.”

Origine: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Origine: Speak

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”

Origine: Speak

“To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.”

Origine: Speak

“Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.”

Origine: Speak

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I cry to let everything out”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“They yell at me because I can’t see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”

Origine: Speak

“There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

Origine: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Origine: Wintergirls

“They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.”

Laurie Halse Anderson libro Chains

Origine: Chains

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

Origine: Speak