“ I observe that I too must alter my vocabulary. No longer is it proper to say, as I have all my life, that someone is mentally retarded. As I discover on other websites, by using the new People First L… Rachel Simon
“ She realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see Rachel Simon
“ [S]he spontaneously threw back her head and trumpeted,I'm rent! I'm rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky. Rachel Simon
“ I'm rent! I'm rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky. Rachel Simon
“ How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love? Rachel Simon
“ Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again. Rachel Simon
“ A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad. Rachel Simon
“ A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created. Rachel Simon
“ Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take. Rachel Simon
“ So you never know when you can get through.p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic Rachel Simon
“ She’s sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There’s no reason, it’s just the way it is. Rachel Simon
“ Well, ain't that just the way of the world. Everything come to an end, whether you wants it to or not. All that nature out there: over. The Snare: dead and gone. Even a love that make a man giddy and… Rachel Simon
“ The reactions of others were actually another lesson she'd learned about change. When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though so… Rachel Simon
“ Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and ou… Rachel Simon
“ I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too.p 167 Rachel Simon
“ Then, he says, as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like...p 55 Rachel Simon
“ In the Big Apple, you get people like Beth on every bus, and nobody would say a word. You get races mixing, and it’s no big deal. Old people, young people, everyone keeps their mouth shut. There’s jus… Rachel Simon
“ I lost myself, but in the end that helped me find myself. You’ve just got to have faith and work at it. With anything? I ask. Anything, she says, as a gap finally opens in the intersection. As long as… Rachel Simon
