Jarrett Lerner > Quotes

“I put on a smile- and instead of hiding in bathrooms I learned how to hide in plain sight.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“All I can do- what I need to do- is work on changing what I think and feel when I see me.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“We're all works in progress. I know I am.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I bite my lip- dig my teeth into the skin and focus on that pain instead of the growling in my belly.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“Suddenly I was hungry. So hungry. Like I hadn't eaten in weeks. Like my stomach wasn't just empty- but like it had been scraped clean.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“If I can get to a sink I drink big gulps of water- as cold as I can make it. It numbs my tongue and fools my stomach into thinking it's been fed.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“How many meals do I have to skip before I look how I want how I need?”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I decided I'm just gonna wear and do and BE exactly who and what I want to be. ME.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“Thinking of myself as unfinished in that way- it's gotten me to be a lot kinder to myself.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“John”
― Jarrett Lerner, EngiNerds

“I’m assuming it’s because he just came up with some kind of amazing, foolproof idea to fix all our problems, and I feel a sudden surge of gratitude for the kid and his big, annoying, brilliant brain.”
― Jarrett Lerner, EngiNerds

“I don't want to look like this anymore. I don't want to be like ME anymore.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“It was hard to find the right words and harder to say them out loud and hardest of all to see what each word did to Mom and Dad.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“IT GOT CANCELED. The League of Ladybugs was taken off the air two years ago. And it’s not like they’ve been showing reruns, either. Apparently, one of the show’s two creators sued the other one, and they’ve been in some long, messy court battle ever since. It’s illegal—as in against the law—for any TV station to show a single episode. Learning this, my anger disappears. It gets zapped away, fast as lightning. Now I’m just upset.”
― Jarrett Lerner, EngiNerds

“Instead, he lifts up his T-shirt. And there, on his stomach, are a handful of purple-black bruises.”
― Jarrett Lerner, EngiNerds

“I was really, really good at fitting in. Or sort of like changing myself to MAKE myself fit in.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I’m muttering. “Stupid, dumb . . . stupid idiot . . . him and John Henry dumb-face . . . Mr. I’m So . . . what a . . . doesn’t even know . . . can’t even . . . and his dumb . . . probably watching that stupid show . . . Dumb League of Ladybug Losers . . . stupid insects . . . stupid—” I finally stop.”
― Jarrett Lerner, EngiNerds