Sarah Walsh

“Because sometimes when it seems like everything is falling apart, we’re actually coming together.”
― Caleb Wilde, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life

“not wanting contact with others” or “preferring to play alone.” I can’t speak for other kids, but I’d like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

“three types of touching: touching with desire, touching with demand, and—the most rare option—touching with devotion.1 Touching with devotion is an ardent recognition of the value of people . . . it’s not forceful or uncomfortable; rather, it’s respectful and produces ease.”
― Caleb Wilde, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life

“Had I not been drawn out by interested grown-ups, I might well have drifted farther into the world of autism. I might have ceased to communicate.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's