BULLIED Quotes

“One person’s hairy spider is another person’s red-nosed clown,”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“What does the leopard teach us? Not to be intimidated by animals that outweigh him. To be fearless and daring.   It”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“Just because someone’s bullying you doesn’t mean you have to bully you as well. Katrina’s flipping cartwheels in your mind, having the time of her life destroying you. You’ve got to get her out of there. Stop saying her words in your head. Stop believing them.” “I can’t.” “Yes, you can.” Jessica said, gripping her hand. “You can be anything you want to be, Ricey. You just need to believe it.” ***”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“But Anger never leaves any room for Sense. Like”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“Fear was something that cropped up on occasion — like when she was little and someone forgot to switch on her Winnie the Pooh nightlight. Fear was something that happened, and then left. Now it was something that was. Something that could penetrate. Something that could stay. Always lurking. Waiting to strike. She was right, of course. The little girl who was scared of the dark was really just afraid of the unknown.”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“Madison was only fourteen, and even though Ricey was just two years older, she felt like Life had taken its great giant paintbrush, dipped it in a huge pot of Grief, and smeared her with invisible wrinkles overnight. Madison, on the other hand, looked like she’d fallen headfirst into the painter’s pallet. Ricey,”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“Not that all humans are like that. There are strong ones among them, ones born with a sword in their hands and fire in their hearts, just waiting to take me on. But it’s not these people that I admire the most. Their courage in the face of fear is a gift; they didn’t break their backs in their collision with me. No, it is the weaklings. The ones who quiver and shake in fear of me, desperate to bury their heads in the sand until the storm is over. But instead of hiding, they brandish their tiny, little penknives and charge. Nobody, not even Fear, can take their dreams away from them. It is then that I catch a spark of a person’s worth. For they are not really weaklings at all. They are the bravest of the brave. I”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED

“The story that I am about to tell you is just a glimpse — a tiny glimpse into the people I bump lives with. The ones who overcame the fear that threatened to break them, and the ones who were broken because they didn’t.”
― J.D. Jacobs, BULLIED