Marcus Cole Quotes

Marcus Cole: My whole life, my father told me people will judge me. People will assume they know who I am by looking at me. And that the deck is stacked against me. When you're faced with that, when you're without power, on the outside, you have tough choices. It's easy to hide. To give in to the pain. Like Hannah did. She started to believe that she was less than. To believe that a life of privilege and position was only for other people. But the truth is, privilege is a trap all its own. And we do ourselves no favors by keeping our heads down, by hiding. You have to find a way to hold your head up. When you're marginalized, powerless, you have to find strength somewhere. In friends. When you feel left out, when you feel like this high school world is against you, it can be lonely and frightening.

Marcus Cole: Nothing anyone did to her was any different than what happens to every girl at every high school. She just wanted attention. And leaving those tapes... that's a f*cked-up thing to do! No one deserves that.