There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Quotes

“Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a gold star. They don't give gold stars to monsters.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“If a monster says hello to you, you should say hello to it. If you don’t, then I have to wonder which one of you is really the monster.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Until he knows he isn't a monster, how is anybody else supposed to know?”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Cautiously,”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“How can he be your friend if you don't like him?”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“-“I think everyone has ‘good’ inside him.
Everyone can feel happiness, and sadness and loneliness. But
sometimes people think someone’s a monster. But that’s only
because they can’t see the ‘good’ that’s there inside him. And
then a terrible thing happens.”
-“They kill him?”
-“No, even worse. They call him a monster, and other people
start calling him a monster, and everyone treats him like a
monster, and then after a while, he starts believing it himself.
He thinks he’s a monster too. So he acts like one. But he still
isn’t a monster. He still has lots of good, buried deep inside
him.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Girls hate it when their clothes get dirty.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Bradley Chalkers
Homework
Book Report
My Parents Didn’t
Steal an Elephant
By Uriah C. Lasso
Mrs. Ebbel’s class
Room 12
Red Hill School
Last seat, last row
Next to Jeff”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Friends always break even.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“If a
monster says hello to you, you should say hello to it. If you
don’t, then I have to wonder which one of you is really the
monster.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“She looked around. There was a bulletin board covered with A papers. She looked from one paper to another and hoped, with all her heart, that she’d see one with Bradley’s name on it. She didn’t.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“I have been to the White House,” Jeff admitted. “If you want, I’ll tell you about it.” Bradley thought a moment, then said, “Give me a dollar or I’ll spit on you.” 2.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Chalkers sat at his desk in the back of the room—last seat, last row. No one sat at the desk next to him or at the one in front of him. He was”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“-Я думаю, что в каждом существе сидит кто-то хороший. Все бывают счастливы, всем бывает грустно и одиноко. Но иногда вдруг люди начинают считать кого-то монстром. Просто потому что они не видят того хорошего, который в нём сидит. И тогда происходит нечто ужасное.
— Они его убивают?
— Нет, хуже. Они называют его монстром, и другие люди тоже начинают называть его монстром, и все относятся к нему как к чудовищу, и через некоторое время он и сам начинает верить, что он чудовище. Он считает себя монстром и ведёт себя как монстр. Но при этом он вовсе не чудовище. В глубине души он очень, очень хороший.”
― Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom