When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He’ll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

You’re a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.

Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

People have been bullied in school, and it’s their right to stop and take a stand for what they believe in

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my “friends” had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t and if you know truly know God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t

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

No one heals himself by wounding another.

Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you have to talk about them some people may have problems in life and you making rumors can lead to stress and cause the person to kill...

It’s just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they’re going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through...

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

I’d always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World’s Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don’t blame her. When her...

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

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...

I used to love school until everybody got old enough to point and laugh.

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn’t bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn’t matter what they thought of him.

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.

When I first went to kindergarten kids asked me what I was. I did not understand-I’m a person. They explained that I look a little different and it is not as easy to tell which...

[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 school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

You’re a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

people have been made fun of for too long, not because there is anything wrong with them, it’s just the people, i have been bullied everyday, people speaking things that aren’t even true about me...

This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were ‘different’. It is also a celebration of the ‘inner outcast’ in all of us,...

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry...

Bullying has to stop, you will regret what you said and did to someone’s life.

I had to stay weak, and stay silent, because if i say one logical thing I shallbe teased until the last breath.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.” Sir William Wallace

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

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn’t true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide,...

I wish I knew what I looked like in other peoples eyes.

Everyone I say stop bullying it is sad and tears someones heart apart and next thing they do is Suicide because they think that is the right next step!If you are a Person who gets...

Everyone at his table laughs.They know I can hear them.They just don’t care.

do not let others decide how much you blow your decide where you want to raise

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you...

No. I didn’t say you could talk yet.You made me feel like crap. I didn’t fit into your little definition of perfect and you never let me forget it. I can assure you there is...

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

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be...

Now, I’ve always known that there were bullies in the world. We’ve seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger,...

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.

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

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels!