Ami Polonsky > Quotes

“White and black. Light and dark. And me, in the middle of it all. Gray.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“It's hard to breathe and my heart is thumping, and all of a sudden, I'm worried that it might explode from all these years of wishing.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“Grayson is who he is, she said. Who am I? I want to hear her tell me. I look at the picture of me in the tutu. All I want is for him to be true to himself. My mind races, but I keep coming back to what i know is true: they knew. They knew, and it was okay.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“I finally see myself the way I'm supposed to be-my inside self matched up with my outside self. And now, everyone else will finally see it, too.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“The familiar longing races through my body-the familiar wish.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“I stand in a fog. I am Cinderella. I follow by evil step-brother to the dinning room, wearing a golden gown that only I can see.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“I'm so proud of what you've done this year. And always remember, Grayson, to be brave.
Fondly,
Mr. Finnegan”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“Can I try out for Persephone?”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“I said, ‘Mom, I’m a homosexual,’ and
she put down the glass that she was washing and said, ‘Jason Randolph Holmes, the world is going to try very hard to convince you that there’s something wrong with you, and it’s your job to prove to yourself that the
world is wrong.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“the world is going to try very hard to convince you that there’s something wrong with you, and it’s your job to prove to yourself that the world is wrong.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“come out,”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“Dad always says that to write a poem, you first have to identify the beating heart of what you want to say. You have to see the heart, and hear it, and hold it in your hands, and then, once you’ve done all of that, you can write around that heart. Even though I’d have to look up ramiferous, I knew right away that the heart of this poem was me—my heart.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“We are dying because we are gay.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“Julian felt both familiar and unfamiliar, like he understood maybe the tiniest thing about what I was going through while, at the same
time, still being a total stranger. I imagined a paperweight heart beating in his chest and, despite my fiery swirl of emotions, I wanted to see it better.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“I’m not strong,” I told her. “I care about what everyone thinks of me. I care about how they’ll react to everything I’m going to say.”
My voice caught, and I cleared my throat. “I care so much.”
She looked me in the eye. We were the same height, and I realized how piercing her dark eyes were. But then she smiled. “Ms. Cohen. Isn’t that the point?” she asked me. “Isn’t that the point of everything?”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“Annabella is nonbinary, pan…,”
― Ami Polonsky, Spin with Me

“I remember it now - how it felt when I first knew that I was supposed to be Persephone.
What do you already know?
I am a girl.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson