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.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.