Amy Rhoda Brown

“Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity

“Le Cardinal's conclusion suprised him. L'Arche produced a collective intelligence that was greater than the sum of its parts; interaction between the able and the disabled produced points of view that were more sophisticated than either group reported on its own.”
― Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

“I sketched a picture of Jean-Claude in my notebook; he saw me, so I showed it to him. He erupted in pleasure. It seemed I'd found a way into his trust and his company—into his world. It was easier to do this with the residents than I had imagined. There were not rules, no prescribed routes: you went with what was available, with the most human thing you could catch on to.”
― Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

“Life’s disappointments are harder to take if you don’t know any swear words.”
― Heather Shumaker, It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids