Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Skins

• La puerta del baño se abre de golpe. Emma ve la sangre pintando mi piel y los ríos rojos esculpidos en mi cuerpo. Emma ve el cuchillo mojado, de plata y hueso. Los gritos de mi hermana pequeña rompen los espejos.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

• I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Skins, Lines, Three

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.60, Scholastic UK

• 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

• Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Glasses, Two, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

• I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Skins, Sound, Fabric

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.162, Macmillan

• They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Together, Skins, Faults

• Sigo pensando que si pudiera desabrocharme la piel, salir de este cuerpo, entonces vería quién soy en realidad". Ella asiente lentamente con la cabeza. "¿Cómo crees que serías? "Para empezar, más pequeño.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Skins, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.91, Penguin

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