bullying

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a start__nd that was all that mattered.

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 didn__ know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.

Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? It__ not who you are.___hat__ the point,_ Amber said. ____ not allowed to be who I really am.

Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it__ all right here._ I placed a palm against my chest. __ure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they__e still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree.

Don__ you think it__ sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you_people who are beautiful inside and out_those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

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

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

No one heals himself by wounding another.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don__ have. It really isn__ about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.

Dear Girls Across the Globe,Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY.My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves.I want to go. Now.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Drowning,Drowning on the land,Drowning,It doesn't end.

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.

Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.