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The Impossible Knife of Memory QUOTES

The Impossible Knife of Memory QUOTES

1 " Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

2 " Could he hear my heart pounding? "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

3 " The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

4 " I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

5 " Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

6 " 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. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

7 " My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

8 " It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

9 " The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

10 " Having a friend made everything else suck less. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

11 " Tell me this is a nightmare "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

12 " It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

13 " The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn’t sure who he was anymore. Or who I was. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

14 " I could never hate you, even if I wanted to. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

15 " Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

16 " I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

17 " The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

18 " The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

19 " That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165) "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory

20 " Gracie's father was an engineer, her mother an accountant. I couldn't picture either one of them yelling or throwing things or having affairs. I could see my dad doing stuff like that. Trish sure did. But Dad carried a war in his skull, and Trish was a drunk. Gracie's parents didn't have anything like that to deal with, but their daughter was falling apart on the bathroom floor. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , The Impossible Knife of Memory