“My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that”
― quote from George
“She’s always going on about how we’re not supposed to let people’s expectations limit our choices.”
― quote from George
“George stopped. It was such a short, little question, but she couldn't make her mouth form the sounds.
Mom, what if I'm a girl?”
― quote from George
“She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too.”
― quote from George
“The play passed by quickly, and yet it seemed to George as though she had been onstage since the beginning of time, as if she were born there and had only now found herself where she had always been.”
― quote from George
“The play will begin at six sharp. Parents and family, I hope you'll stay for the PTA meeting that will follow." A few parents coughed in response. George knew that coughing was the adult equivalent of groaning.”
― quote from George
“Trying to be a boy is really hard.” Mom”
― quote from George
“His words crawled under her skin, settling deep into the crevices of her bones. Without”
― quote from George
“SUPPORT SAFE SPACES FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH. Reading”
― quote from George
“where Mom’s eyes were filled with concern and confusion, Scott looked at George as if his sibling made sense to him for the first time. George had never been gladder to have an older brother.”
― quote from George
“She had genuinely started to believe that if people could see her onstage as Charlotte, maybe they would see that she was a girl offstage too. When her row was called, George”
― quote from George
“Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.”
― quote from George
“Você é forte. Mas o mundo nem sempre é bom com as pessoas que são diferentes. Só não quero que você torne seu caminho mais difícil do que precisa ser”
― quote from George
“Someday, somehow, George would have to tell Mom that she was a girl. But this was not that day. And as for how, she had no idea.”
― quote from George
“Ms. Udell leaned against her giant desk, reading to her fourth-grade class from a tattered copy of Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. She wore her shiny black hair in a loose bun, and wooden earrings dangled from her long earlobes. In her seat by the window, George couldn’t listen. She couldn’t think. Charlotte, the wonderful, kind spider, was gone and nothing was good. The whole book was about Charlotte saving the runt pig Wilbur, and then she goes and dies. It wasn’t fair. George pushed her fists into her eyes, rubbing until rows and rows of tiny triangles twirled and twinkled brightly in the darkness. A tear dropped onto George’s book and spread into a spiderweb on the page. She breathed in carefully, trying not to make a sound. Shallow”
― quote from George
“She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too. When”
― quote from George
“Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.”
― Gregory Boyle, quote from Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
“But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.”
― Peter S. Beagle, quote from Tamsin
“I think being so passionate about something is a talent in itself.”
― Hiromu Arakawa, quote from Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3
“For the record, chocolate’s a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.”
― Cidney Swanson, quote from Rippler
“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on
the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking,
talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues
shout blind on the phonograph”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Kaddish and Other Poems
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