I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

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.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.