Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

I think I am very anti-social.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

I don't like to speak. I like to keep myself to myself - quiet.

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.

I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.

No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

I spent a long time in the shadows. I always had this feeling that I was the only one going through stuff, because I kept it a secret. Once I decided to use my voice in a way that could potentially help others, I found there were a lot of people like me - a lot of kids left behind. So, I wanted to call attention to the issue.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.