Amanda

“The joy, as C. S. Lewis put it, is not the satisfaction of the longing but the longing itself.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“the United States spends nearly 20 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare—more than twice the average of developed countries.”
― Elisabeth Rosenthal, An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

“Asperger survived the war, but his concept of autism as a broad and inclusive spectrum (a “continuum,” his diagnostician Georg Frankl called it) that was “not at all rare” was buried with the ashes of his clinic and the unspeakable memories of that dark time, along with his case records. A very different conception of autism took its place.”
― Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

“Rich people thought themselves special, but in truth, they simply possessed extra layers of insulation against the winds of misfortune.”
― Randy Susan Meyers, The Widow of Wall Street