Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

You can miss a person you've never known.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.