You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

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

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

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.