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“Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? It’s not who you are.”“That’s the point,” Amber said. “I’m not allowed to be who I really am.”
“Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?”
“I’m starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me.”She turns shy and looks down. “You are worth saving.”
“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...”
“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at the one who killed her, but all he could picture was Yoshino being literal...”
“You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own”
“If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.”
“...research tells us that we judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no inter...”
“Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer’s leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur’s dance party!”
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unifi...”
“I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me”
“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”
“It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about ...”
“I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak—happened to be my personal ...”
