Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.
Laurie Halse AndersonIt was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.
Laurie Halse AndersonIn one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
Laurie Halse AndersonCan the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
Laurie Halse Anderson