Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.
Laurie Halse AndersonHere stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.
Laurie Halse AndersonDead girl walkingโ the boys say in the halls. โTell us your secretsโ the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
Laurie Halse Anderson