“To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.”— Gia Russell Related Quotes “And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.”— Leila Aboulela “In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.”— Rebecca Solnit “He was still a kid inside. His body had grown, stretched, towered, tanned its skin, hardened its muscle, darkened its tawny shock of long hair, tightened its lines around jaw and eyes, thickened fingers and knuckles, but the brain didn’t feel as if it had grown in sympathy with the rest. It was still green, full of tall, lush oaks and elms in summer; a creek ran through it, and the kids climbed around on its convolutions shouting, “This way, gang – we’ll take a short-cut and head them off at Dead Man’s Gulch!”— Ray Bradbury