“When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so e...” — Jay Asher Quote

“When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.”

“One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.”

“Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'”

“I endured too much having to cross the dangerous waters of the Gulf to make it to the U.S. for freedom for me and my sick little girl to now get bullied by anyone.”

“There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.”

“I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.”