Working up my courage to write something real...but in the meantime...

"Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies."
                                 -- Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

This line gets a little cheesy (much like the rest of the novel, unfortunately), but I agree with the sentiment.

I'm still laughing at an episode of The Middle from 2012. The youngest son Brick becomes obsessed with a book about the making of the movie adaptation of Love Story. He doesn't realize it was originally a book and has no intentions of ever seeing the movie. Comedic genius!

This Instagram from Mindy Kaling is also golden. Classic Justin Bobby reference. I would love to work on her writing staff.

And one more for good measure.