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… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
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… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff? — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
“He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
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