Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

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

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

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.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.