Christy

“I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984