I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

We call them feelings because we feel them.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

You dishonor God when you don’t treat His people with love

For that genuine smile on your face, find the lost confidence and then that's it!

Fall seven times stand up eight.

Words writ in waters.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.