“This was the skin that protected you from the world—this loving of another person you shared your life with.”

“Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.”

“Let me remind all of us--disabled and nondisabled--that every time we defend our intelligence, we come close to disowning intellectually disabled people. We imply that it might be okay to exclude, devalue, and institutionalize people who actually live with body-mind conditions that impact the ways they think, understand, and process information. The only way out of this trap is to move toward, not away from, intellectually disabled people, to practice active solidarity.”

“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”

“We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.”

“Within 24 hours of moving into a new place we overwrite it with our own microbes, turning it into a reflection of ourselves.”

“Not all pain is worth it,’ said Tipper. ‘Some pain is just pain.”

“I'm working on the future, instead of being caught up in where I am today. - Roy Daniels”