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“People always believe they're nice in their own heads, that's what makes it so scary when you look at the state of the world.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Bullying and harassment in the workplace are unacceptable.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“So many people behave like they think a cinema orchestra is following them around to give them backing music, that they're the superstar of the universe...and the people who believe this way, they're the people who tend to hurt others the most. They think they're the hero of their own story, but, actually, in the pursuit of being so important, they're often the villain of everyone else's.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume.”
― Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not seen, where there was no road, no path, no track. And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think 'It's better than people.' Black ants or red ones, tall nests swarming with white ants, rain that soaked me to the skin - once I saw a snake. All better than people.
Better, better, better than people.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Bonding over hatred
Becoming a mean girl
Won’t help you to win
It’s just another stupid sin”
― Aida Mandic, A Maniac Did

“Children learn bullying behavior from adults, but no one talks about this transfer of destructive behavior.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“When you say someone is cancelled, it's not a TV show. It's a human being.”
― Taylor Swift

“Whether you have been the target of aggressive behavior or the aggressor, this event does not define you. Every day brings a new opportunity to start again.”
― Jessica Speer, Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure

“she knows how to play the good part
that’s how you lose your good judgement”
― Laura Gentile, you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“she feels alive when she infects your wounds”
― Laura Gentile, you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“Because abuse is a cycle, those who now occupy positions of power may well have brains so steeped in normalized bullying and abuse, that they can no longer think clearly.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“While the bullying paradigm creates destabilizing, fear-inducing, unpredictable conditions, the cornerstone of learning and healthy brain wiring is safety.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“I was hostile, and I had every right to be. Middle school didn't make any sense. If you were mean, people liked you. If you were nice, people were mean. If you teased girls, they smiled and laughed. If you complimented them, they frowned and walked away. If you were bad in class, you were hailed in the hallway. If you were good in class, you were bullied in the locker room. The pretty girls dated the ugly boys, and the only friends you had were the ones you didn't want.”
― Yousef Alqamoussi, Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging

“Don't get caught in the vicious squares of circles.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Okay, now. In the spirit of open minds â€� try to walk in somebody else's shoes at least once a day. Maybe even twice a day.
What's it like for your poor teachers to have to put up with you rowdy, ill-tempered boys and girls? Just kidding. You're all very nice!
What's it like for the other kids in your class? I'm talking about every single kid in this school! What is school like for them? Please walk in their shoes.
Okay, and what's it like for your moms and dads? They think about you all the time. Especially your moms. Now it's time to think about them.
Another thing. This is kind of earth-shakingly important. If you're a bully � stop it right now!
Being a bully could mean you have stuff to work out at home. So try your best to work it out at home.”
― James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

“Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Brodie's Report

“Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“There were rules for victimhood, it seemed, the way that there were rules for everything else, and people really only believed in justice for the privileged, white, and pretty.”
― Nenia Campbell, Batter My Heart

“I wonder, if I count long enough, whether I can go back in time, all the way to the beginning of eighth grade, before I was weird and before anyone noticed me and before I opened my mouth and talked to Roamer and before they called me "freak" and I was awake all the time and everything felt okay and somewhat normal, whatever normal is, and people actually looked at me--not to stare, not to watch for what I'd do next, but looked at me like, Oh hey, what's up, man, what's up, buddy? I wonder, if I count backward, whether I can go back and take Violet Markey with me and then move forward with her so we have more time. Because it's time I fear.

And me.

I'm afraid of me.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“They did not have the privilege to express themselves publicly like other social groups. People should not be allowed to disrespect marginalized communities like Bosniaks. I had to face a constant stream of bullies and haters who tried to destroy my success and contributions. Bosniaks like me encountered heartache, considerable hurdles, and pain as a product of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. If they tried to succeed or make a mark, Bosniaks dealt with people who were jealous of what they achieved. Furthermore, these people were fully aware that Bosniaks escaped the Bosnian Genocide. That fact did not stop them from being cruel and sadistic.”
― Aida Mandic

“My bullies sought to make me worry, tried to degrade my value, and even had the audacity to go to my teachers and demand to know why an immigrant girl like me received top grades. I was told to “go backâ€� to my country, that I should commit suicide, that I was evil (because my work ethic was not convenient for them), and that the world would be better off without me. I was not white enough for the white students and I was not enough of a minority for the minorities.”
― Aida Mandic

“If I tried speaking about the war and genocide to people, I was often met with resistance. I experienced a situation where a girl was jealous of me. She thought that I tried to gain the attention of others by speaking about the genocide and what my family endured. She called me an “attention whoreâ€�. Does this mean that she believes that genocide survivors who speak about war are attention whores?

That filth and damaging thought process should not have a place in society. It was common for me to be humiliated in front of the entire class by bullies. They wanted to make me feel cornered and embarrassed.”
― Aida Mandic

“Bullying is a form of intimidation”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“I have been accused of being a bully. I think a lot of that stems from precisely my resistance to feel like I need to do the emotional labor of making people feel comfortable about what I’m saying. In particular, as a Latino scholar doing work in bilingual education, I’m particularly resistant to the idea that I need to make white people feel comfortable doing work in bilingual education. I put my work out there. I let it speak for itself. I certainly have never targeted anyone individually and personally insulted them, which is what bullying actually is, right?”
― Nelson Flores

“Sweets or the beats!”
― Steven Magee

“Hurt brains hurt.”
― Jennifer Fraser

“[...] sometimes it's stronger not to show strength, especially when facing someone weaker than ourselves. [...] If we must humiliate another person in order to make ourselves feel big, then we have become very small and scared indeed.”
― Alex Bell, Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

“When Huy was young, his classmates called him "wee weeâ€� because of an unfortunate linguistic coincidence that shaped the part of him that constructs identity beneath a title. When he dwelled on the identity that his name began constructing for him in childhood, a loud American Schoolyard memory of boys and girls yelling "wee wee" at him was dominant, within a mental file full of similar confusion that came back to him as obnoxious, repetitive shaming.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Había aprendido pronto que si contabas chistes y fingías que no tenías miedo normalmente no te pegaban. Incluso los peores matones te soportaban, te dejaban andar cerca para divertirse" Leo”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero