I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.

In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.