I kept my eyes closed until I felt my resolve to be who I wanted to be come back. I couldn’t stay this desperate. It wouldn’t look good to people watching from the outside.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock…

Explain to me how you having a problem with me is my problem…

You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they...

We are all told to ignore bullies. It’s something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn’t mean you learn it. It doesn’t mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies....

Lions and tigers, bitches and bears, oh my.

He couldn’t have pulled back the lock, they couldn’t simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three seconds, because those weren’t the rules of the game.Theirs was the intoxication of...

I will never grow thick skin so that you don’t have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

Your tears are never invisible—there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

The bullies are always popular.Why?People love power.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, ‘Don’t abuse me like your parents abuse you!’ Then call children’s services...

Those aren’t girls. They’re vultures.

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.

(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you’re simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

People don’t stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.

Pay no attention to haters,attention is what they crave.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

I know you don’t want to stand up to the bullies, the peace-breakers, or even the demons among you. You want someone else to handle it, someone else to tell them to stop, someone else...

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.

It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

If I could give one message to the bullied, it would be this: You are not alone. You are strong. You have a voice. You are beautiful. You are intelligent. There are many kids who...

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don’t share their shit. They’re like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw....

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

we wouldn’t learn anything worth knowing.” Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Don’t hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell...

Experience is the best teacher.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Remember: If someone’s trying to pull you down that means they’re already beneath you.

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

I find it’s usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren’t they?Hutch: I’d think, if I could just be...

He’s a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

One negative voice aimed at me has the incredible power to drown out a thousand positive ones. One of the greatest things I can achieve is to never let it.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Whenever you’ve got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn’t always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Bullies are just men who don’t know they are cowards, of course.

how are they going to get me?”). Persecution becomes inevitable, inescapable. And once you get into the victim mindset, you’re fucked. The bullies don’t even need to hurt you now; your poor, warped, pathetic brain...

The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, ‘I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.