{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.","author":"Thomas M. Cirignano","tags":["boston","boston-harbor","boston-history","bully","bullying","castle-island","cirignano","discrimination","dorchester","drinking-and-driving","fitting-in","forced-busing","gas-shortage","irish-mob","italian","memoir","murder","nonfiction","osracism","south-boston","southie","true-crime","whitey-bulger"],"id":1557,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Cirignano"},{"text":"Luke said that he was surprised when I showed up at his room. That he hadn’t meant to give me the wrong idea. That he would never have taken it beyond just kissing. And he looked so genuine. So trustworthy. So sorry about what had happened. He almost convinced me that I’d misread his signals.” Hallelujah pauses. “The whole time, I kept my mouth shut. I wish I hadn’t. But I was still so humiliated. And I felt guilty. I made out with him. I liked it. And no one made me go to his room.”Her voice breaks. She has to swallow past a lump in her throat.“I know Luke’s not a good guy. I know what he did isn’t my fault. It’s his. But still, none of it would’ve happened if I hadn’t gone to his room.”She’s almost there. Almost done. Almost heard. Something deep inside her hurts like it hasn’t hurt in a long time. But she knows that this gash had to reopen in order to heal. That’s how wounds work. They need air.“I knew I’d get punished, and I did. My parents grounded me. I was put on youth group probation. But I honestly thought Luke’s lies would just fade away if I kept a low profile. There’s always gossip about someone. This time it was me.”...“Luke is still telling people about what supposedly happened that night,” Hallelujah says. “And he makes fun of me. All the time. What I look like, what I say, my name. And he does this thing at church: whenever we sing a hymn with my name in it, he sings it like he’s hooking up with me. He sings the word ‘hallelujah’ at me. He moans it. And I hate it.” That’s one of the reasons she stopped singing: his voice, his fake grunts of satisfaction, ruining the music she loved so much.“You said,” she says to Jonah, “he wanted to keep me upset. To keep me from telling anyone what really happened. Well, it worked.” She pauses. “Until now.”“Until now,” Rachel repeats. Then she curses. “I can’t believe him. I can’t believe he got away with it.”“I let him get away with it,” Hallelujah says softly.“No. He’s the one who crossed the line. And okay, maybe you could’ve spoken up sooner. But if no one pushed you for your side of the story, that’s on them.” Rachel yawns and stretches. “And when we get home, we’re going to set the record straight.","author":"Kathryn Holmes","tags":["bully","get-away-with-it","hallelujah-calhoun","harass","hate","jonah","lies","luke-willis","punished","rachel-jackson","singing","torment"],"id":2475,"author_id":"Kathryn+Holmes"},{"text":"Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["about","blame","bully","depression","envy","happening","happiness","happy","haters","hatred","impress","impression","jealousy","loser","michael-bassey-johnson","non-achiever","note","nothing","pleasing-someone","show-off","someone","trying","unhappy","write-off"],"id":6480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["brave","bully","family","friendship","life","starbucks","sunglasses"],"id":12617,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"Experience is the best teacher.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["best","book","books","bullies","bully","douglas","experience","penelope","penelope-douglas","teacher"],"id":30117,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["bully","bullying","death","ethics","evolution","morality","species","stefan-molyneux","wisdom"],"id":31922,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin.'That's where people like YOU belong!' I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. 'In the garbage!' - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture.","author":"Aishabella Sheikh","tags":["bully","garbage","lavinia","ollie","school","teasing"],"id":41075,"author_id":"Aishabella+Sheikh"},{"text":"Madeleine Albright says, “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.” I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["bitches","bully","haters","hell","madeleine-albright","mean-women","quotes","for-women","women","working-women"],"id":41819,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef. His companion had less stew in his hair, but an equally large lump was rising fast, and Brandark flipped his improvised club into the air, caught it in proper dipping position, and filled it once more from the pot without even glancing at them. He raised the ladle to his nose, inhaled deeply, and glanced at the cook with an impudent twitch of his ears.'Smells delicious,' he said while the laughter started up all around the fire. 'I imagine a bellyful of this should help a hungry man sleep. Why, just look what a single ladle of it did for Shergahn!","author":"David Weber","tags":["beat","bully","defeat","delicious","food","funny","good","humor","humorous","laughter","lump","shame","sleep","steer","stew","triumph","yummy"],"id":45570,"author_id":"David+Weber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}