I.W. Gregorio > Quotes

“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“If there’s one thing I learned from my dad leaving my mom, it’s that love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“That was When I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answerd: Male and Female, And I was None Of The Above.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“My cheeks flushed, and I felt a wave of warmth throughout my body, but not because of the subject matter. Because she had used the word us.
It was one of those times when you don’t realize how lonely you are until, suddenly, there’s someone by your side.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“You know I love you too, sweetie. Forever and ever, until the sun fades.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“And I wondered for the first time whether 'feeling feminine' just meant feeling good in your own skin.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“low expectations were the key to a happy life.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?”
― I.W. Gregorio

“But what does that mean, to "identify" as a gril? Just because you feel like you´re a girl doesn´t mean that you really are”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“If tonight wasn’t going to be the night—one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew—when was?”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“I’m not saying that you have to become this Übermilitant Intersex Warrior. I’m just telling you to be careful of letting other people define who—and what—you are.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“We were both silent for a minute. And I wondered for the first time whether “feeling feminine” just meant feeling good in your own skin.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“Who was I? I played so many roles: daughter, friend, babysitter, runner, girlfriend. I'd been proud when I was elected team captain, but now I wondered who my teammates had thought they'd voted for. And who my classmates had thought they'd elected Homecoming Queen. Sam had said that I was someone who smiled at people in the hallways. In my birthday card just a month ago, Vee had thanked me for always being there to listen. My junior yearbook had been full of notes using words like nice and sweet. But if that was who I was, how had people turned on me so quickly? Take away the people around me and who was I? Just another smiling face? There had to be more.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“If this opportunity passes us by, I know that I will never have the nerve to create another one.”
― I.W. Gregorio, My Brain in love

“The world around you may have shifted, seen you in a different light. But the Mona Lisa is a masterpiece whether it's in a pitch-black room, under a strobe light, or in the sun.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“I’ve always thought that writing down one’s truth is one of the most vulnerable things a human being can do, second only to the act of sharing that writing with another person.”
― I.W. Gregorio, This Is My Brain in Love

“The question that kept nagging me afterward, though, was this: If I’m not happy, does that mean I’m killing my mother’s dream?”
― I.W. Gregorio, This Is My Brain in Love

“In a perfect society, what is under one's fig leaf wouldn't have anything to do with how a person is treated.”
― I.W. Gregorio, Hope Nation

“Isn't that ironic?" I commented.
"What, because we're not 'real women'?" She made air quotes.
"Why aren't we real women−because we don't have uteruses? What about women who have hysterectomies? Or mastectomies?”
― I.W. Gregorio

“How's he doing, anyway?"
"He's fine," Darren said in that automatic tone that you used when people asked questions you didn't really want to answer. I knew that tone well.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“Now that I'm awake, as I survey the wreckage, I have no idea how to rebuild.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“if there’s anything I hate the most, it’s a book that makes your emotions feel like a child’s overloved comfort toy being flung around a washing machine. The ones where it seems like the story’s all beautiful and nothing hurts, until someone kicks the bucket at the end, tearing a hole in your belly and removing organs that you didn’t know existed.”
― I.W. Gregorio, This Is My Brain in Love

“Sure people have issues at first,” she said. “People fall apart. Some people start drinking. One woman did heroin for a little while after she was diagnosed. But that’s what those meetings are for. You realise that no matter what they’ve gone through, people can heal, as long as they have someone to show them the way.”
― I.W. Gregorio

“I’ve never been a bouncy Tigger, or a kind and steadfast Piglet. I’m an Eeyore, plain and simple.”
― I.W. Gregorio, This Is My Brain in Love

“Promise you won't judge?"
"Why would I judge?" I asked innocently.
"Okay, now I know I'm not going to tell you.”
― I.W. Gregorio