"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."

-- Mary Lou Retton

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“He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”
“There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Aspergerâ€™s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.”
“How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?”
“If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”
“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.”
“I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.”
“And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
“in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.”

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