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I’m not sure why people want you to look at them when they’re angry with you. That’s when you want to look away the most.
People are always telling me to repeat myself or speak up.
Quiet people representation 😆
I’m probably the only person in the school who hates it when the teacher lets us choose our own groups. I lower my head to my desk and close my eyes. I
oh my god child ur relatable
opened it to find that every illustration had been desecrated with black Sharpie.
>:(
What happened next was like a time warp where you’d swear you didn’t do it—or at least you didn’t plan to do it. But I guess sometimes, without thinking, you find yourself tilting over glass cases full of mice. One interesting fact: scared mice are fast.
King.
Instead she said no one is evil, only unhappy, and unhappiness festers inside like a sore.
“But none of us like having to delay class every day to wait for you,” Miss West says. “If you’re going to insist on doing this, then the least your aide can do is get you here early. All this coming in late and leaving early is very disruptive.”
Oh what a bitch
“David,” she says, handing a boy his paper, “seventy-six. Violet, eighty-five. Kristin, ninety-three. Julian…”
AND she announces grades out loud. Queen of bitchhood
I realized that kindergartners were a lot like manic-depressives, vacillating between euphoria and despair with terrifying speed.
Camila corrects, leaning over their desks so I have no choice but to look down her shirt.
straaaiight whiiite man
“I hope you didn’t take a bunch of pharmaceuticals. That stuff’s poison.”
heh?
“Do you understand now?” Miss Carlisle raises her voice so we can hear her over all the noise. “Do you see how this would ruin your lives?”
This is so fucking funny
“Jared.” He growls, then begins walking backward, watching me all the way to his desk. Then he shoves his baby to the floor and slams into his seat.
This kids an animal. Wat da faq is his deeeal
“Happy?” Mom shouted. “My child was traumatized!”
Oh christ
and then she said a lot of other things neither of us is proud of, and Mrs. Nethercutt started to cry. In front of the entire class.
Ugh
Why would anyone want to spend their day inside a box?
homeopathic drops….” “Drops?” “Yeah, there are remedies for everything. That’s how I got off my ADHD meds.”
Oh fuck please stop.STOP
“Finally my doctor said everything was a side effect of the medication. He told Mom he could switch me to something else, but she was like, hell no. That’s when she got really into nutrition and homeopathy. She’d do anything to make sure I’m well.”
I may have to fight the author, actually
“But you have to. You’ll get sick. Body hair carries germs. It isn’t sanitary.” “Who the hell told you that?” Charlie is looking at me like I’m crazy. “My uncle.”
Oh what the fuck
“Guys don’t shave their legs. Except swimmers, because it’s supposed to make them faster—which I don’t get, because how much can leg hair slow you down? But no, it’s just something girls do.” “But why just girls?” “Because,” Charlie says, “no one’s gonna go out with a girl with hairy legs and pits—Wait a minute!” He grabs my sleeve. “Does this mean you shave your pits?”
>:(
“Now if this was a halfway-decent brand of jelly it would be one thing, but it’s all processed.” He says it like it’s a curse word. “Full of sugar and preservatives.” Those are curse words too.
Author.
He looks at me doubtfully. “It’s true. I was raised by a woman, okay? I was raised to be a feminist. But then I realized this fact: they’re insane.”
this is why i dont read books about or by straight people.
starts riffling through the cabinet full of homeopathic remedies.
Stoppp
“Well, I mean, I’m not getting him into trouble, if that’s what you’re thinking. I don’t even use pharmaceuticals.”
Im about to commit murder
Why would she write them down unless they meant something? Maybe they were places she’d been, but I don’t know all the places she’d been.
Theorizing juliens mom escaped from some weird cult
A girl turns onto our hall, eyes red and sad, and as she passes, Adam sends her a smile. Her whole face brightens and she sends him a smile back. Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.
“Because people heal a whole lot faster when they’re with someone who loves them.”
“I don’t know. When I found you, it was nineteen days after you checked out of school.”
Oh, god.
