Ruby Granger > Quotes

“remember that you can find friends: remember that there are people similar to you. All you have to do is look up.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“The leaves are tinged amber at the sides, the pale orange merging with the deep greens of summer. It's as though somebody has dipped a paintbrush in red watercolour paint and then left it atop a green paper towel. The pain seeps gradually through the porous paper and eventually fully stains it: within the month the leaves will be red.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“It’s only when you wear your skirt an inch below the knee," she says cooly, her eyes glued to mine.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“I am so enthused by the learning that I temporarily forget that we are not friends.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“There will be unkindness wherever you go, Erimentha, but that doesn’t mean that there are unkind people”. I nod slowly. “So unkindness is only temporary?”. “Yes, I believe it is," she says and I look up at the Red Maple whose leaves have only just started to tinge. “I’m not going to tell you that I have lived a morally perfect life because I haven’t. When I was a little girl, I would pinch my sister when my mother wasn’t looking. But does this make me an unkind person?”. I shake my head. “No. Because you are kind at other times”. “And that’s exactly it. Sometimes we’re kind and sometimes we’re not. Some people just lose sight of the good inside of them”.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“Protected by this circle of lights, an arabesque against the cold, the girls at Nightingale’s cannot hurt me.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“On the way out, I give the man with the broken arm my condolences and say that I hope that he recovers quickly and painlessly. His smile makes me glad to have said it.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story