Laura A.H. Elliott > Quotes

“I feel the eyes of the forest on me. The eyes of something I can’t see. And it creeps me out so bad.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“I wish I could describe The 10 to you but I can’t. It’s mostly things you can’t describe that make a guy a 10 anyway. It’s the way he makes you feel inside, all tingly and weird, and how you feel instantly prettier when he smiles at you and how your whole life is different after. “Come”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“And now’s the part where I have to tell you about the creepy abandoned house on our street. I guess every neighborhood has their creepy house. The one that all the little kids think is haunted. And you should listen to them. Really listen to them.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“I want a boring year, one where I don’t have to worry about life and death. Ally”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“I think the only time a person really has a clue about luck is when they’re a teenager, because life is very different when you become one.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“Shadows will do anything to become human. You”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“There’s people who like warm fuzzy things around them and people who eat soft-boiled eggs out of stainless steel holders. It’s simple. Like dogs and wolves. There’s Alphas and Omegas. Girls”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“On days when I feel the most invisible, I lie in my bed and pretend I’m not who I really am. I pretend I’m a girl who lives far, far away in a tropical place and I know how to sail the sea. I imagine my life is the sea. My bronze, beautiful-self smells of coconut oil. The sun kisses my long, straight hair. I’ve never been to the ocean, and it’s the sound of the waves that makes me open my eyes and know for sure I’m not in my attic any more. All”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“A time without Facebook and Internet and email and twenty-four-seven news and, well, lots of things. A time when people talked. To each other.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“And in the corner of my eye, the very corner of my eye, I spot something dark. Like a person, but just a shadow of a person. And it’s weird because the sun isn’t even out. I stop and turn towards the shadowy person who isn’t even there. All I see are the trees blowing, still blowing, and all I hear are leaves rustling in the wind. And I like it. Not the shadow that I think I saw, which I don’t because it creeps me out, but the sound of the trees. The way the needles on the pines move differently from the leaves on the oaks. And how I never noticed that before. And”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“Our walks smell less and less like tar and more and more like pine and burning leaves and the scent that gets in the air right before Halloween, a mixture of caramel and apple cider and magic––the anything-can-happen scent.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“you can learn a lot about a person from their handwriting. All kinds of things. Like whether they are going to ruin your life and what kind of vegetables they like and whether or not they will become a killer. Writing is the unconscious mind on paper.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“She must have the world’s meanest parents because no one would name their daughter Wanda unless they had something against her. I imagine her family as the meanest family on earth. If I was Wanda, I would never forgive them. Never. Somehow I feel even more awkward around her now that I know her name. “A”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“But this morning is different. I don’t think about not being able to see the other side and how I don’t like things I can’t see through. No. This morning the only thing on my mind is getting away.”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“A left rabbit hind foot, carried in the left pocket after having been removed from a rabbit that was killed during a full moon by a cross-eyed person is truly lucky. I”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“bad stuff happens and you can get through it if you have fight in you. Dogs”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“I keep walking. Freaking idiot. What did she think I was going to do, pretend like she exists? And then it hits me in the pit of my stomach. What if. Is she? No, she can’t be. She can’t be moving into the house down the street from me. Into the creepy house. The haunted house. But where else would a girl live who could shatter bottles with her gaze. Maybe she’s a doppelganger. “Roxie,”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween

“I mean just because dead people talk to you doesn’t mean that they’re smart. What if you get a dumb ghost who tells you things? It’s weird how everyone always assumes that messages from the great beyond are, smart.” “Really?”
― Laura A.H. Elliott, 13 on Halloween