Melissa

“Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals – A NYT Bestseller on the Emotional Needs of Dogs, Cats, Horses, and Zoo Creatures

“I sit down on the bed, cradling her little head against my shoulder, inhaling her sweet baby scent. Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tantrums, she'll need speech therapy, she'll grow breasts and have pimples, she'll fight with her parents, she'll worry about her weight, she'll put out, she'll have her heart broken, she'll be happy, she'll be lonely, she'll be complicated, she'll be confused, she'll be depressed, she'll fall in love and get married, and she'll have a baby of her own. But right now she is pure and undiminished and beautiful.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)”
― Temple Grandin