Your parents thought about it, and the name they came up…

“He sure as hell hadn’t expected to walk into the middle of a standoff between a big bruiser and a short redhead who prepared…

— Katherine McIntyre

“I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably an early…

— Neal Shusterman

All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

— Big L

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be…

— Tamora Pierce

“Bruiser stared in the mirror hanging in his locker and ran a comb through his blond hair, wishing he had dark hair like Harris,…

— Jami Davenport

“They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living…

— Faith Hunter

I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.

— Le'Veon Bell

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not…

— Linda Grant

I was a shy little girl. Growing up, I was often content being alone in my room, making up stories, and acting out all…

— Susan Lucci

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying…

— Raul Julia

“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our…

— Alejandro Zambra

“Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less.”

— Celeste Ng

At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like 'Dreamgirls' and 'Ray,' the type…

— Marsai Martin

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I…

— Sharon Creech

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really…

— Ryan McGinley