The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

A learning curve isn't a perfect arc.

That's right, stupid little voice, bash all my hopes and dreams. Shut up and tell me how to start a conversation with someone who doesn't speak.

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

Because of you, Michael, my heart begins to grow wings.

If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you’re living. Go discover it.

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.