Quotes from Carolyn Mackler

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

For some girls it's sexy when a guy bench-presses or throws a football, but he's slaying me with the book references.

In dragoste nu exista frica, ci dragostea desavarsita alunga frica. Si stii la ce m-am gandit atunci cand citeai? Ca toata viata mi-am trait-o in frica. Dar acum nu ma mai tem.

La ce te gandesti cand spun fericire? - La clipa aceasta, raspunse tatal. Gregor zambi. SI el simtea exact la fel.

I write that one sentence really tiny, like if she doesn't look hard enough she might not see it, like if I write it full size then it might be full-size true. And it's hard to imagine that full-size thing truly happening to me.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

Never underestimate yourself

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don't discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can't sell him on your body, you'd better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.