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“If you don’t like being teased, lose weight.”
How does anyone have the right to tell you how to live just because of your weight?
Fatdar is a lot like Spider-Man’s Spidey sense, a sixth sense.
The stars at night might be big and bright deep in the heart of Texas, but not where we live, thanks to light pollution.
make a beeline for the fridge for some fat-free yogurt that’s yet to make me fat-free.
The whale has to go to a shrink? It’s a punch line for a bad fat joke.
It’s unknown how many students’ lives librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch.
Why aren’t kids allowed to tell grown-ups when they’re wrong? They don’t know everything. Sometimes it’s as if they don’t know anything.
“You’d be so pretty” —and all the big girls in the world can finish this sentence in unison— “if you lost weight.”
As I float, I spread out my arms and my legs. I’m a starfish, taking up all the room I want.
No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you.
“Stereotypes stink. They give people an excuse to hate people who are different instead of taking the time to get to know them.”
“Reading should be like dining at a buffet,” she says. “You have a lot to choose from: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more. There are books galore! Eat them all up!”
The universe should warn you when something horrible is about to happen, give you a chance to take a deep breath before your breath gets taken away.
“Patience is a virtue, Doc, but impatience is a gift. And I’m gifted.”
But it’s a lot easier to toss into the trash the thoughts others have about you than the ones you have about yourself.
Untrue, negative thought: The higher my weight, the lower my value. True, positive thought: A scale does not determine my worth.
That’s what the best books do. They make you think, and rethink how you see yourself, others, and the world. Most of all, they make you feel. Feelings toward people who aren’t like you. Feelings you didn’t know you had.”
