...Thank you for existing so intensely.

"Once, when you thought no one was looking, I saw you open your heart so wide the earth fell in. Once, when you thought no one was listening, I heard you sigh so deep the oceans roared with support. Once, when you thought you were all alone, I felt every atom in this universe rush forward to embrace you. Again. Thank you for existing so intensely." -Sera Beak; Divine Winks

A boy told me...

"A boy told me if he rollerskated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion." -Naomi Shihab Nye; The Rider

The remarkable thing about television...

"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely." -T.S. Eliot

The troubles of the young...

"The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this--its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance." -Oliver Schriener; Story of an African Farm