135 Quotes by Julie Buxbaum

I’ve always like bleachers, things ordered vertically from high to low.

I’ve never had someone loom so large in my brain that the rest of the stuff gets crowded out.

You know what I think? I think the reason high school sucks is because it feels so small. Like a too-tight turtleneck, ” Noah says. “And even if you are brave enough to molt, there’s all these people around you still, like, holding up and showing you your old skin.

There’s no way in that in less than twenty-four hours you could make out with a cool girl, find out your dad, who you thoughtwas alive all these years, is definitely, a hundred percent dead, and like this major hero, and then have your almost-first girlfriend die, who also happens to be be, like, this national icon. That would be too riduculous, even for you, Noah.” Jack.

The autism spectrum is multidimensional, not linear.

Maybe when parents name their children they do it from the perspective of wishful thinking. Like when you go to a restaurant and ask for a rare steak, and even though there is no universally agreed definition of the word rare, you hope you get exactly what you want.

One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn’t ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you’d have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all.

I liked the feeling of her hand in mine.

They seem to understand that the world is a big, diverse place, and that different is not the same thing as scary. It’s amazing to me how many people mistake the two.