Quotes From "The Impossible Knife Of Memory" By Laurie Halse Anderson

Could he hear my heart pounding? Laurie Halse Anderson

The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever. Laurie Halse Anderson

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything. Laurie Halse Anderson

Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong. Laurie Halse Anderson

I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me. 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

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

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

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn’t sure who he was anymore. Or who I was. Laurie Halse Anderson

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to. Laurie Halse Anderson

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. Laurie Halse Anderson

Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?"" I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything. Laurie Halse Anderson

I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation. Laurie Halse Anderson

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose. Laurie Halse Anderson

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. Laurie Halse Anderson

Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon, " he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere. Laurie Halse Anderson

That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165) Laurie Halse Anderson

Gracie's father was an engineer, her mother an accountant. I couldn't picture either one of them yelling or throwing things or having affairs. I could see my dad doing stuff like that. Trish sure did. But Dad carried a war in his skull, and Trish was a drunk. Gracie's parents didn't have anything like that to deal with, but their daughter was falling apart on the bathroom floor. Laurie Halse Anderson

You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years. Laurie Halse Anderson

Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting." I fought a smile. "A trained assassin who babysits."" Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet. . Laurie Halse Anderson

Everyone is born a freak, " notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place.. .. Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly. Laurie Halse Anderson

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown. Laurie Halse Anderson