Juno Dawson > Quotes

“Some people just shine a bit brighter than others and it's got nothing to do with what they look like.”
― James Dawson, Say Her Name

“You're never truly by yourself when you have a book in your bag.”
― James Dawson, All of the Above

“Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“I dare to dream of a world where people can dress, speak and behave how they want, free from mockery, derision, judgement, harassment and danger. This is what I want. Who’s with me?”
― Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

“Bobbie wondered if that's how long you truly live for - until the last person who remembers you, until the final bouquet on your grave.”
― James Dawson, Say Her Name

“the patriarchy, above all else, fears women coming together, so internal female division only succeeds in greasing that machine.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“It’s a life skill, finding the sweet spot between solitude and loneliness.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“How stylishly broken we all are.”
― Juno Dawson, Clean

“Leonie was on a roll now. ‘From the second we’re born we’re made to feel insecure about our bodies, our choices, our lives. Then we hit puberty and all of a sudden we have to be both sexual and chaste at the same time, while our bodies are going fucking mental. We start leaking, for fuck’s sake. Then, after we’re covertly trained to conceal our excellence at school, we get to go work for men who don’t understand literally any of those dilemmas, and think they’re innately more skilled than us. They want you to be like men, but also not like men. It’s a fucking trap. We’re fucked as soon as the doctor says hun, it’s a girl.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Mum, you're freaking me out. You're not a witch. You shop at Next.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Both history and the past are fiction. Only the present is real.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“A beginning often signals an end. That's the thing with dawn... you must first get through the night.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Frankly, if you want to identify as a carrot, I will march in the Carrot Pride parade with you.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“people aren’t allowed to say what’s really on their minds for fear of upsetting people, we’ll end up never saying anything at all.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“You've got a choice. Peace or war? Life or death? Harmony or hate? I've never understood why that even needs discussion, it's so flippin' obvious!”
― Juno Dawson, Doctor Who: The Good Doctor

“However you identify, be it lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, curious, or carrot, we all have something in common—we are a minority, and we have made brave steps to identify as such; we have refused to hide and made a declaration of who we are.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.”
― James Dawson, Say Her Name

“When you take away our bodies and our names, all that's left is the feeling. And the feeling is like warm honey.”
― James Dawson, All of the Above

“If we are not here for love, what are we here for?”
― Juno Dawson, Clean

“I'm dead inside so my eyes remain dry”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“Lis felt the corners of her mouth turn up a little. She'd never had friends like this. Friends who wanted to see her flourish not fade. Their eager faces were like mirrors in which she could see herself more clearly.”
― James Dawson, Hollow Pike

“Remember this, whoever you are, however you are, you are equally valid, equally justified and equally beautiful.”
― Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

“She shared the burden of Laura's cruelty with the others and was less of a victim as a result. Maybe there was some kind of mathematical formula for it: vulnerability times mockery divided by support, or something.”
― James Dawson, Hollow Pike

“Think we were both starting fires to see if any of them burned.”
― Juno Dawson, Clean

“I can't start the day without a cup of tea from my favourite mug, can you? I like Yorkshire Tea the best. What about you?”
― Juno Dawson, Doctor Who: The Good Doctor

“That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!”
― Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

“When I was little, a year seemed like the longest thing in the world.”
― James Dawson, All of the Above

“I sometimes wonder if people are so wary of transgender progress because we highlight how something we often consider carved in stone can be so easily manipulated.”
― Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

“You are never too young to learn that the whole world is largely run and designed for straight, white, cis men, or 'the patriarchy'.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“She had that caged-animal stir-crazy look in eye that only someone who'd endured too much Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women got.”
― James Dawson, All of the Above