Tamora Pierce Quotes

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

We all remember growing up with mean girls, right?

In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.

I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.

Every single cast has a couple bad eggs, or that person that everyone is making fun of or doesn't like.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

I remember I was playing basketball, and an entire arena was, like, chanting 'Big Foot.' It was a high school game, but... you're constantly being reminded you're bigger; you don't look like everybody. There were days where I would be upset, and, like, I'd cry about it.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

I was the dude you didn't wanna go to school with, because I would come to school and get on your shoes. If you had a hole in your pants, I'd talk about it all day long. If your hair was messed up, if you had buck teeth, I'd talk about it all day long. And I made people laugh doing it, but it wasn't like I thought I was a comedian.

When we were in high school, Jonathan would always try to embarrass me in front of girls, so I consider it my duty to pay him back.

People used to always laugh at my hair, stuff like that.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

I've gotten a hundred pictures of guys making fun of me.

Everyone experiences bullying at some point - there are always older kids who think it's cool to pick on the younger kids.

I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.

Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

When I had long hair, I used to tie it back, so the guys would say I would look like the 'Gypsy.' I used to hate that, but the less you like a nickname, the more it sticks.

Don't stress over mean-girl antics.