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41 " My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs. "
― Shane L. Koyczan
42 " He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him ‘Get over it’. As if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents in a first aid-kit. "
43 " Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. "
44 " I was never meant to be this thing... "
― Shane L. Koyczan , Stickboy
45 " How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it? "
― Shane L. Koyczan , To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful
46 " I do my best impression of a penand when every problem looks like a pageI commit ink to paper "
― Shane L. Koyczan , Visiting Hours
47 " everything she meant to say wasyou've given a worth and happiness to my lifethat I had no right to believe could ever exist "
48 " Beethovenhis thoughts moving atthe speed of soundtransforming emotion into musicand for a momentit was like joywas a tangible thinglike you could touch itlike for the first timewe could watch love andhate dance togetherin a waltz of such precision and beautythat we finally understoodthe history wasn’t importantto know the manall we ever had to do waslisten. "
49 " The truth is there’s not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there’s too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there’s a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can’t find answers is because the search party didn’t invite us. "
50 " When I was a kid, I was fascinated by spaceAnd I learnt that time slows near a black hole.Inside a black hole, time stops altogether.Whether or not this theory will ever be proved,I’m moved to believe this would be the perfect place to love someone. "
51 " I've been toldthat people in the armydo more by 7:00 amthan I doin an entire dayBut if I wakeat 6:59 amand turn to youto trace the outline of your lipswith mineI will have done enoughand killed no onein the process. "
52 " i remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another. "
― Shane L. Koyczan , A Bruise On Light
53 " I smile because there are tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth, and every time I breathe they float and every time I laugh they fly kites. "
54 " Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light. "
55 " We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest. "
― Shane L. Koyczan , Silence Is A Song I Know All The Words To
56 " we used to stay inside for recessbecause outside was worse "
57 " We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty. "
58 " And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself/ get a better mirror/look a little closer/stare a little long. "
59 " Please, sit in my sky and let me polish your shine. "
60 " You better dust off your etiquette, better sit like you did back at whatever grade that made it clear to you that your teachers are not your parents, and that any mess you made remains your responsibility. "