“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
“Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine the bold stride of these dragon-slayers, the proud audacity with which they turn their back on all the weakling's doctrines of optimism in order to 'live resolutely' in wholeness and fullness: would it not be necessary for the tragic man of such a culture, in view of his self-education for seriousness and terror, to desire a new art, the art of metaphysical comfort, to desire tragedy as his own proper Helen, and to exclaim with Faust:
Should not my longing overleap the distance
And draw the fairest form into existence?"
"Would it not be necessary?"--No, thrice no! O you young romantics: it would not be necessary! But it is highly probably that it will end that way, that you end that way--namely, "comforted," as it is written, in spite of all self-education for seriousness and terror, "comforted metaphysically"--in sum, as romantics end, as Christians.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner
“These then are tales of metamorphosis, brought about by neurological chance, but metamorphosis into alternative states of being, other forms of life, no less human for being so different.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
“When every ethnic and religious group claims a right to approve or veto anything that is taught in public schools, cultural pluralism becomes ethnocentrism. An evident casualty is the old idea that whatever our ethnic base, we are all Americans together.”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
“لا يمكن أن يتهرب المرء من ذاته . يمكنه تجاهلها ولكن لا يمكن التهربّ ابدًا”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“It may have been the light at 5:36 on a June evening or it may have been the smell of dust combined with sprinkler water or the sound of the neighbour kid screaming I'll kill you but suddenly it was like I was dying, the way I missed her. Like I was swooning, like I was going to fall over and pass out. It was like being shot in the back. It was such a surprise, but not a very good one. And then it went away. The way it does. But it exhausted me, like a seizure.”
― Miriam Toews, quote from A Complicated Kindness
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