Shannon Simble

“I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment, and I push for everything that can be done for my autistic boy. But I will never have a plan that will fix him. Noah is not something to be fixed.

And our life will never be normal. And people always say,

oh well what’s normal, there’s no such thing really, and I say —

sure there is…there’s a spectrum… and there’s lots and lots of possibilities within that spectrum, and trust me buddy, ducks on the moon ain’t one of them….but ….

In this abnormal life, I get to live with a pirate,

and a bird fancier, and an ogre, and a hedgehog, and many many superheroes, and aliens and monsters —

and an angel.

I get to go to infinity and beyond.”
― Kelley Jo Burke, Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism

“As much as I enjoy romance, it’s commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depend on, a love that says, “I will be with you through it all. I love you. And I will love you even when you may not be all that lovable, for sometimes I'm not very lovable either. You can count on me - always.”
― Steve Goodier

“Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go.”
― Papaji

“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”
― Anaïs Nin