Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.

I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.