The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.