"A Friend Like Henry" Quotes
A mother shares the story of her autistic son and the extraordinary bond he forms with their family dog, Henry.
nonfiction | 352 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
I was beginning to realize that Ben was a very special little boy.
I didn't want Ben to grow up in a world that forced him to change, to be something he wasn't.
I felt like I was losing my son, the one I'd known for eight years.
I now knew that Ben could learn, he just needed the right teacher.
Ben was a puzzle, and I was beginning to see the picture.
I knew then that Ben would never be an ordinary child, and that he would never have to be.
Ben was a child with a unique view of the world, and he was changing our lives.
I realized that Ben was showing us the world through his eyes, not ours.
I felt Ben's pain, his struggle to communicate, to be understood.
Ben was teaching me to see the world in a different way, to appreciate the small things.





