Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.