Lilliwhite

“It’s not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of these memories are great, but they’re mine.
Which lends way to believe, that none of our lives are put together on an assembly line. We’re not pre-packaged with memories or programmed with stories. We have to make our own.”
― Shane Koyczan

“We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.”
― Shane Koyczan

“How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?”
― Shane Koyczan, To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful

“I’m not the only kid who grew up this way. Surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us. That we’d be lonely forever. That we’d never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their tool shed. So broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing. Don’t tell me that hurts less than a broken bone.”
― Shane Koyczan, To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful