The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.