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

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

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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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

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