No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

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

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.