"Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?"

-- John Steinbeck

#Orange Quotes #California Quotes #West Quotes

“Sunset is the opening music of the night.”
“From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.”
“When parents say, "I wish my child did not have autism," what they’re really saying is, "I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead." Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.”

Source : "Don't Mourn for Us". Jim Sinclair, "Our Voice" (the Autism Network International newsletter), Volume 1, Number 3, 1993.
“I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.”
“I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.”
“I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.”
“Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.”

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