“It’s easy to forget that Simon’s not going to live on like the rest of us. A few MD patients get mentally affected, but Simon’s so quick, and he’s got such a wicked sense of humor, that once you know him you hardly notice he’s in a wheelchair...”
“Mum- my Mum- said once that having to cope with a handicapped child was supposed to make good marriages better and bad marriages worse. ‘The Shaws belong to the first lot, all right,’ she told me.”
“There are ways- ways round, and ways through, and ways over. If you have not two hands for a bow, then learn to use a throw-spear with such skill that your enemies, and your brothers, forget that it is not from choice.”