#bullying

The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you're not there. ↗

— Eric Kahn Gale

#bullying

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. ↗

— Rachel Simmons

#bullying #peers #culture

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

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

— Courtney Summers

#high-school #high-school

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#bullying

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#bullying

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still. ↗

— Paul Murray

#schools #bullying

But there was one bully to rule them all, one bully to find them, one bully to bring them all and in the darkness pound them. ↗

— Michael Grant

#bullying

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#bullying

For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible. ↗

— Rebecah McManus

#bullying #different #school #teenagers #bullying