“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”

“Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.”

“You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.”

“Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.”

“It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget bad experiences than it is for us. So fill them with as many good experiences as possible.”

“Memory is a landscape watched from the window of a moving train. (...) These things happen right before our very eyes, we know them to be real, but they're so far away we can't touch them. Some are so far, so very far away, and the train moving so fast, that we can't be sure any longer that they really did happen. Maybe we merely dreamed them?”