Robin Gow > Quotes

“Sometimes it’s hard to feel real. It’s hard to even feel trans because people don’t believe us, but I know who I am.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

“It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

“No one listens to kids or monsters.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

“I feel like the only way to exist as a queer person is to hide.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

“It’s not about being right. It’s about proving to everyone that there is so much we still don’t know about the deep beautiful forest and about what it means to be people— to be queer people.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

“I wish people wouldn't assume what I'm feeling because sometimes, I'm just trying to figure out what I'm feeling.”
― Robin Gow, Gooseberry

“There is no one left I can pretend to be a boy with now other than you. When does pretending end? Am I a boy because I wish I was? Really, I want to be a boy with Lewis. I’m wondering what it would mean to be a boy without him.”
― Robin Gow, Dear Mothman: A Novel in Verse

“Sometimes I feel like there are two of me. One who is a good hija.
She helps Mom cook. She does what she’s told. She gets perfect grades.
She is going to be a nurse just like Mom.
I think of the picture of me in my white First Communion dress.
The other me is bold and queer. He has hair dyed red.
He wraps himself in a trans flag. He doesn’t care what his family thinks.
I don’t know who I am sometimes between the two of me
or what it would look like for those two mes to come together.”
― Robin Gow

“You laugh at the things that hurt you most.”
― Robin Gow

“I wonder what makes this change different. I wonder why it has to be me and somewhere deep in my core I think how wildly beautiful it is to exist in spite of all the places the stories of men like you, like us, are left untold.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions