because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

I like in my free time to walk.

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.