I. H. Richardson Quotes

You don't smile enough, Coop.I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me.But not like you mean it.

If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope forthe werepanthers in East Hampton after all.

Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky

There are moments in your life that can change you forever, and you Norah, you are my forever moment.

How can a girl look so innocent and so hot at the same time?

That sad sinking feeling you get when you don't fit in even with other autistics

She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.

I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.

Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.

Don't be sad that I'm autistic. Love me for who I am. All of me. Some things are difficult for me but I'm okay as I am.

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress, Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it.

My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me?

Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn’t exist anymore.

Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.

I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's whatmy ears are for.

Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words.

I'll always be there for you.I promise to protect and nurture you.Hopefully one day soon, true Autism acceptance will besomething that just is.

I look out onto this world I'm in and hope that one day all people will be accepted and valued as they are.

I could sum up my younger life in one word.-Misunderstanding. Most of my school life was spend in protection mode. Which made any 'benefit' I could get from socializing, useless.

Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one.

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind.

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty, while my brain was dark and full

Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out.

When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.

Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece that’s so beautiful, that no other piece of art could rival its beauty.” - Clint

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.

You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.

From my friend, Brig. General Ezell Ware, Jr., CA Nat'l Guard, Dec.Keep on going till you get there, then keep going.

I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I would have followed anyway. I was in a Norah state of mind.

The way he looked me up and down made a part of me burn with desire. Fire and electricity. Flames and sparks. Needing and wanting. Tempting temptation.

As I looked into his eyes, trying to see into the depths of that darkness, it hit me. It was subtle, but it hit me. The rush of attraction.

Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.

I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.

I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn’t just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite.

A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn’t even packed a pocket knife.

Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.

Dreaming is escaping. Daydreaming is a form of self protection. Dissociation is Survival

You weren't using the moon for anything. Only some long-term robot storage.

The main work of haunting is done by the living

The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?

I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.