"How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from."
- Jonathan Friesen
"My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say"
"The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities."
"I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart."
"I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds."
"No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the pa..."
"My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below.."
"Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?"
"What's wrong with me? I lose my footing, in here.' He touched his head. 'When a neuro-typical looses their footing, they yell or escape to the TV, or maybe the doctor throws them on depression meds. B..."
"We are often reminded how peaceful our world has become, a world without a police force or prison, where crimes and uprisings have nearly disappeared. But we’ve paid a price. The emotional root of all..."