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 AndersonYouโre not dead, but youโre not alive, either. Youโre a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. Youโre a ghost with a beat- ing heart. Soon youโll cross the border and be with me. Iโm so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Laurie Halse AndersonI want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.
Laurie Halse Anderson