quotes from books you relate to

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not necessarily because of AS but can be.

I really like "sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." from Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Close and Incredibly loud (think the kid in this book has AS not sure if it is stated).

The context of the line man who shut down after his experience of WW2 and the holocaust, his reaction upon seeing an attractive women (I think, can't remember for sure). I just find the line really powerful expression of being disconnected, yearning to be different but unable to overcome himself.

information is power - Fahrenheit 451

paraphrase: all of life is like a spider's web. touching it has far-reaching consequences. - all the king's men by robert penn warren

"The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."

--A Christmas Carol, stave 2, paragraph 51.

It is the most frequently ignored part of the whole story.