Perspectives On Bullies and Bullying and Being Bullied.

Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards.

Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence.

Shunning one hopeless battle is not an act of cowardice.

Hankering for security or popularity makes you weak and vulnerable.

Which is worse: Scorn earned by informers? Misery endured by victims?

The brutal may have been molded by a brutality you cannot exceed.

Let guile be your ally.

Respect earned by integrity cannot be lost without your consent.

Don't laugh at what you don't find funny.

Don't support an opinion you don't hold.

The independent befriend the independent.

Adolescence dies in its fourth year. You live to be eighty.

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, pg. 212-213

"They were in good spirits, scrubbed and combed, clean shirts all. Each foreseeing anight of drink, perhaps of love. How many youths have come home cold and dead from just such nights and just such plans."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (pg. 38)