Lisa Fipps Quotes

She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's unknown how many students' lives librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch.

I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want.

It’s unknown how many students’ lives librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch.

The fat on my body never felt as heavy as your words on my heart.

Why aren't kids allowed to tell grown-ups when they're wrong? They don't know everything Sometimes it's as if they don't know anything.

Every kid needs one place they can escape to when life gets to be too much.

DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do.

every kid who’s ever been told, “You’d be so pretty or handsome, if . . .” You ARE beautiful. Now. Just as you are. You deserve to be seen, to be heard, to take up room, to be noticed. So when the world tries to make you feel small, starfish!

It would be great if people realized that we’re all different, in all kinds of ways, and different is okay.

The universe should warn you when something horrible is about to happen, give you a chance to take a deep breath before your breath gets taken away.

Stereotypes stink. They give people an excuse to hate people who are different instead of taking the time to get to know them.

That’s what the best books do. They make you think, and rethink how you see yourself, others, and the world. Most of all, they make you feel. Feelings toward people who aren’t like you. Feelings you didn’t know you had.

The library is my safe harbor since I dare not go into the cafeteria alone, a whale surrounded by starving sharks.

No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you.

The best way to be understood is to learn and speak someone else's language.

It's unknown how many students' lives librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch" -Ellie

Mom always says, "You'd be so pretty" - and all the big girls in the world can finish this sentence in unison - "if you lost weight.

As I walk away, I realize I've been starfishing-starting to claim my right to take up space in this place.

But it's a lot easier to toss into the trash the thoughts others have about you than the ones you have about yourself.

Reading should be like dining at a buffet, you have a lot to choose from: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more. There are books galore! Eat them all up!

At first I think being ignored is better than being humiliated. But then I wonder. Because when people look right through you, it's like you don't even matter. Like you don't exist. And everyone is fine with that." -Ellie

That's what the best books do. They make you think, and rethink how you see yourself, others, and the world. Most of all, they make you feel. Feelings toward people who aren't like you. Feelings you didn't know you had.

You replay the moment in your mind from every possible angle, trying to understand why. Why the rules exist and who. Who came up with them and how. How does anyone have the right to tell you how to live just because of your weight?

It's not what a mom should do!" I collapse onto the couch. Hug the pillow to my chest, hiding my heart, not my stomach. "Moms shouldn't do that." Tears flow as I rock back and forth. "She's supposed to love me." My voice is a whisper. "Just love me.

Write down the hurtful words people say so you don’t have to carry them around in here.” She taps her head and heart.

If eye-rolling were an Olympic sport, she’d be a gold medalist.

When grown-ups fully understand technology, kids will be in big trouble. Until then, we rule the planet.

Untrue, negative thought: The higher my weight, the lower my value. True, positive thought: A scale does not determine my worth.

I'm a poet, so I love music because lyrics are sung poems" -Ellie

A friend hears what you say with silence." -Ellie

I included the hurtful stuff I say to me, too. Fat Girl Rule: You need to bully yourself as much as, if not more than, everyone else bullies you.

I plan to become a storyteller, and a poet, to help people feel what it's like to live in someone else's skin" -Ellie

I’m a poet, so I love music because lyrics are sung poems,” I say.

Viv laughs at my tired joke until she cries. I join her, and our tears have nothing to do with laughter.

Dogs listen when people don't" -Ellie

An oyster can turn something irritating into a rare and beautiful pearl. People can do that, too" -Ellie

I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want.

make a beeline for the fridge for some fat-free yogurt that’s yet to make me fat-free.

Will there ever be world peace when families can't even agree on what to have for dinner?

DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do.

I realized sometimes you need someone who understands what it's liked to be bound to show you how to be free.

I deserve to be seen. To be noticed. To be heard. To be treated like a human.

The whale ‘didn’t need to be fixed. He was the one who sang his own song.’ That really hit home. That’s what the best books do. They make you think, and rethink, how you see yourself, others, the world. Most of all, they make you feel. Feelings toward people who aren’t like you. Feelings you didn’t know you had.

Why aren’t kids allowed to tell grown-ups when they’re wrong? They don’t know everything. Sometimes it’s as if they don’t know anything.

Sharks usually attack when a whale is alone or distressed.

But it’s a lot easier to toss into the trash the thoughts others have about you than the ones you have about yourself.

librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch.

How does anyone have the right to tell you how to live just because of your weight?

The place I feel weightless in today's fat obsessed world.

mon ∙ ster (noun) \´män(t)-st´r\ 1 : a human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape. 2 : one who inspires horror or disgust. 3 : me.

Well, a lot of people blindly follow others instead of thinking for themselves, ... ... It's okay to be different. We're all different. Inside, everyone just wants to be accepted for who they are, but then they act like other people to fit in.

I realized sometimes you need someone who understands what it's like to be bound to show you how to be free.

...I'm not going to try to hide myself or make myself small anymore. How I'm proud to be me and claim my right to take up space. I deserve to be seen. To be noticed. To be heard. To be treated like a human.

History books are full of horrible things happening because people sit back and do and say nothing.

Patience is a virtue, Doc, but impatience is a gift. And I'm gifted.

That's a perfect example of what happens when you bottle up anger. Whenever you do release it, it's going to make a huge mess.

Bruises are purple. Anger is red Sadness is blue. And the black? ... That's how you feel inside When you've been bullied.

gym (noun) \´jim\ : school-approved body-shaming session.

Take out the garbage. Stop junking up your mind with stinky things bullies have said to you. Toss them into the trash, then pick up a good thought to replace it.

Everyone in my family plays the piano —except me. Years ago, I asked Mom for lessons as a Christmas gift. I remember joining her on the piano bench, sliding my fingers over the slick, shiny keys. “You really want to learn?” Mom asked. “More than anything,” I told her. “Fine,” she told me, and stood up and shut the lid. “When you lose weight.

I don’t know what happened to you or why people are so mean, Ellie, but I do know whatever someone did is a reflection of them. Not you.

You're good with words. Just be careful to use them as tools, not weapons" -Mom

Reading should be like dining at a buffet. You have a lot to choose from: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more. There are books galore! Eat them all up!" -Mrs. Boardman

Tell me more about the Fat Girl Rules," Doc says as she flips through them. "So these are rules you live by?" "There sure are a lot of them, Ellie." "And I add new ones all the time. I used to think if I could just follow the rules, then people would stop being mean to me. But, duh, that didn't happen.

Speak up, buttercup, or I can’t help you.

There’s plenty of room for each and every one of us in the world.

As soon as I slip into the pool, I am weightless. Limitless. For just a while.

DNA doesn’t make you family. Love does. Actions do.

The pool’s always been my escape. The place i feel weightless in today’s fat-obsessed world. I swim each morning and try to hold on to that feeling throughout the day. But by the time school’s over, i feel every pound, plus the added weight of shame from all the comments.

The pool’s always been my escape. The place i feel weightless in today’s fat-obsessed world. I swim each morning and try to hold on to that religan throughout the day. But by the time school’s over, i feel every pound, plus the added weight of shame from all the comments.