134 quotes found
“I walk with my head high, shoulders squared. I'm better than them. No matter the whispers and taunts they throw out. Fuck them. Fuck them all.”
“Drowning,Drowning on the land,Drowning,It doesn't end.”
“Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.”
“Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.”
“No one heals himself by wounding another.”
“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
“Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else”
“To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like youpeople who are beautiful inside and outthose are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]”
“Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, its all right here. I placed a palm against my chest. Sure, you can scribble out ...”
“If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didnt know what happened to people once ...”
“It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a startand that was all that mattered.”
“Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? Its not who you are.Thats the point, Amber said. Im not allowed to be who I really am.”
“Dont you think its sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?”
“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama. Bully exists in schools becau...”
“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”
“you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,”
“Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.”
“Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.”
“If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school's headmistress or another scho...”
“[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed? WHAT?!At MY schoo...”
