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“I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing. ”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Unhappy people have a role in society—and that is to make the rest of us feel better.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower