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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
Explore more quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson
"She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her."
"I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me."
"The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak."
"If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet."
"I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food."
"Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting.'I fought a smile. 'A trained assassin who babysits.''Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet."
"Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!"
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