“It’s like, Earthlings, you idiots, get it together!”
Source: The Last Days of Lorien
“Sandor wasn’t there. I would have loved nothing more than to have him at my side, but no one was there. I was alone, and he did
nothing.”
Source: Stalks of Gold
“What if it was an elaborate trick or test? What if she failed, and now King Eadric was sending guards her way?
Or even worse, Sandor just wasn’t going to follow through. What if King Eadric had intimidated him into backing out? What if he had realized she wasn’t worth the risk? Why would he risk his life to help someone who had been nothing but awful to him?
She waited.
What if she was right?”
Source: Stalks of Gold
“You don’t love someone only when they do all the right things. You love someone even when they fail you because you’re going to fail them too, and they will love you even then.”
Source: Stalks of Gold
“It is a clear and dazzling summer’s day in Vienna. You are standing in a skewed pentangle of lemony sunshine at the sharp corner of Augustiner Strasse and Augustinerbastei, across from the opera house, indolently watching the world pass by you, waiting for someone or something to catch and hold your attention, to generate a tremor of interest. There’s a curious frisson in the city’s atmosphere today, almost spring-like, though spring is long gone, but you recognize that slight vernal restlessness in the people going by, that stirring of potential in the air, that possibility of audacity – though what audacities they might be, here in Vienna, who can say? Still, your eyes are open, you are unusually poised, ready for anything – any crumb, any flung coin – that the world might casually toss your way.”
“Whether the autistic subject is inscribed as 'nearly' developed or 'under' developed, developmental discourses always situate the autistic subject as partially developed and thus not fully human. [...] Developmentalist discourses frame the autistic subject in need of advocacy as a kind of development project, the autistic body becomes understood as 'develop-able.' The autistic is, in other words, framed as one who needs to be taught humanness.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Watch,' the posters tell the potential advocate, but only if you embody normalcy. For it is normalcy, the posters point out, that is endowed with the power of the qualification to see. Abnormalcy is unseeing. . . Autism is not qualified to see itself.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“[The] excited, angry, upset, or calm choreography of fingers fluttering is simultaneously medicalized and moralized: re-encoded as '[an] odd or repetitive way of moving fingers.' The quiet play of a lone child in a busy playground is now seen as a pathological sign pointing not to personal choice or preference or even to social exclusion but to (medical/moral) deviance.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Despite the constant lament that autism is just too costly, a significant or even 'crippling' economic burden for the social whole, the production of the time-rich but not time-efficient body of the autistic child has generated a multibillion dollar 'autism industrial complex.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence