Laurie Halse Anderson Hard Quotations

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.