Dear Bully Quotes

“Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.”
― Heather Brewer, Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

“My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.

My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.

You have no power over me.

You will not silence me.”
― Marina Cohen, Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

“It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It’s at least partially because I survived you that I’m the person I am today.”
― Kieran Scott, Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

“Bystanders who do nothing give bullies permission inadvertently to go on being bullies. Most are afraid they’ll lose friends or be bullied themselves if they help victims or report bullies, and some feel guilty for years afterward.”
― Megan Kelley Hall, Dear Bully

“School administrators can’t say it’s up to the parents. Parents can’t say it’s up to the teachers. Teachers can’t say it’s not their job. And kids can’t say, “I was too afraid to tell.” Every single one of us has to play our role if we’re serious about putting an end to the madness. We are all responsible. We must be.”
― Megan Kelley Hall, Dear Bully

“People told me that if I ignored you, if I pretended that you didn’t bother me, you’d eventually give up and move on to the next victim. So why didn’t that ever happen?”
― Laurie Faria Stolarz, Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

“In order to find some solution to the bullying problem, we’ll have to be more tolerant of ambiguity, subtlety, and strangeness not just in other people but in ourselves. It may be important to your identity that you are a soccer player, but it may be equally important that you can whistle the national anthem backward and make the world’s best spicy popcorn and do a wicked impression of Victoria Beckham. Schools, parents, and educational endeavors should encourage people not just to empathize but to discover and celebrate the weirdness in others and in ourselves. We need not just to think but to live outside the box. Weirdness is good. It keeps things interesting.”
― Megan Kelley Hall, Dear Bully