“Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.”

“I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.”

“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”

“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words, queer words that we spoke on-stage for money in the land of the brave. With no valid permit, license, visa or contract to do so. Felons, really, all of us, and now we intended to flee the scene without paying income tax on the twelve dollars and fifty American cents we each made. It's just this kind of shameless law-breaking that gives all poets a bad name.”

“It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.”

“Just because the bully was always nice to you, never stole your lunch money, didn’t make him any less of a bully, did it?”

“getting lost is not always a bad thing”