A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.