Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

We all have this [emotional] stuff we carry in an invisible suitcase. You can't keep it all, because if you keep it all, you can't move forward. But you can't let it all go, because if you let it all go, you're not yourself. The great balancing act of life is, What do I keep in here?

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

You can't run away from yourself

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.