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

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

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Sparrows, Rooms
Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan

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

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Mean, Helping
Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.181, Penguin

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
Hurt, Inspiration, Soul

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

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Daughter, Hurt, Feet
Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.19, Scholastic UK

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Lying, People
Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Couple, Lying
Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.179, Penguin

I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. 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.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Pain, Cat

I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Suicide, Hurt, Blood

I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurt, Moving, Stronger
Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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