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"Slice it however you like, if you're going to have a haunted scull talking to you before breakfast, you need a cup of tea."

"If anything matters, then everything matters."

"You three really are incompetence on a stick."

"[People] find their identity and worth in their brokenness."

"Some special interests are sparked not by curiosity, but by fear. I new an autistic child who, fearful of storms, became an expert in meteorology, and another who, scared of spiders, became an arachnologist in order to understand and allay their fear".

"For autistic people, interests are not just hobbies; they are central to their well-being".

"You came along.
I didn't say "I wanted to discover the world, but..."
I said "I want to discover the world with you, for you, thanks to you.
You're not a break, you're my engine.
You're not a burden.You're my good luck charm".

"Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else".

"By the end of it I had a plan. And like all good plans, it required a crazy Ukrainian guy".

"By the end of it I had a plan. And like all good plans, it required a crazy Ukraininan guy".

"Can't make nuclear elevators without breaking some eggs".

- Why is there such an emphasis on you being a Father?...
- ... Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

- Why not just find a real job?
- Because sometimes you just have a fruit-costumed villain inside you, and you either let it out, or you regret it for the rest of your life.

"Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love".

"Never forget, Sams. Love is forever. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be the world".

"It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage".

"Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you".

"Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit".

"May the peace of God be with you, even in the midst of trouble".
"Why would it? After all I've done..."
"It isn't about you. It is a gift. You cannot earn it or ceases to be a gift".

"There are times when you choose to believe something that would normally be considered absolutely irrational. It doesn’t mean that it is actually irrational, but it surely is not rational. Perhaps there is suprarationality: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that makes sense only if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in".

"No selflessness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know".