Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Bullyville.
Grief Quotes
It was bad enough that Dad might be dead—that he probably was dead. But it was worse to still feel my anger at him mixed in with the shock and sorrow. (2.13)
Isolation Quotes
Her mom and sisters kept urging her—and me—to join a support group so we could get together with the other 9/11 families. But we didn't want to. (2.38)
Weakness Quotes
You learn to bully or be bullied, and you learn to do it really well. (1.1)
Mortality Quotes
Every time I thought about my mother being in that building, I felt as if I was about to throw up. (2.9)
Class Quotes
On clear days you could spot the school's tower barely peeping out from under the toxic cloud that hung constantly over our high-priced (if you didn't count our block) and rich (if you didn't count...
Family Quotes
No one ever pointed out that Dad didn't even play golf and he'd never gone away on business. All of which made me realize that he'd been missing in action for a long time before he'd actually baile...
Change Quotes
There's a saying I heard once: Nothing happens. Nothing happens. Then everything happens. (1.17)
Masculinity Quotes
I didn't watch that much TV, but I'd seen enough talk shows and soap operas and made-for-TV films to know that a middle-aged guy ditching his wife for a newer, hotter model was pretty standard oper...