Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Life is supposed to get tough.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

It's life, man, and life is never easy.

Growing up was very difficult.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

I grew up very quickly because of the difficulties and responsibilities that I have always had.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.