78 Quotes by Laura Anderson Kurk

I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak—happened to be my personal trigger.

I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People hate others so they strike like snakes. It’s all connected—we’re all connected, bumping around into each other, some of us good, some bad, most a mixture. Every thought acted upon has consequences. Every one.

Grayson noticed me next to the lockers. He pointed at me then held his arms out magnanimously. “You’re welcome, new girl,” he said. “I just saved you from having to find a nice way to say no to the leg dragger.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

I’d known cruelty in a school – cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene – crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak – happened to be my personal trigger.

Everybody likes to be known. Heck, its why people roll their car window down when their favorite song comes on. They’re telling everybody, ‘Hey, hear this? This is me.