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"Can you imagine what would happen if it got out?"
p.31
"How boys and girls work. Black-and-white line drawings on sheets of A4. I felt, understandably, left out. I wondered where I fitted in."
p.35
"I think about scarring. I think about how every one of us is different, how every intersex person is different from the others, what the doctors said, about different problems. I think about contraception, condoms and pills."
p. 38
"I don't want to see them. They're... they ask a lot of questions and stuff."
p. 49
"I don't know why everyone is so obsessed with sex. It sounds gross."
p. 105
"I couldn't say anything. I wouldn't let her touch me, find out what was down there, find out what was missing. I had no way to explain it really, no terminology."
p. 120
"Dad wanted me to be able to have kids?"
p. 217
And my favourite one:
"I'm intersex, and I'm coming to terms with that too."
p.340
You need courage to do anything. It’s the same courage you need to take an exam or make choices or write a poem when your last one was shit, as it is to go out at night without feeling terrified. If you fear, you’ll never live. You need courage to do it.
page 27
Or does he only appear to be happy, but is silently searching for something, for a sense of belonging, of self, of home inside his own body?
page 101
you have to pick one. Why? Because those are the rules. Everything else is a non-entity.
page 304
I wish I could just tell everyone. I wish being me was normal, or if not normal, then accepted.
page 305
If you love someone, you love them. It doesn’t matter where they came from or if they’re a boy or a girl, or if you fight, or if they’re weird, or if they find it difficult to communicate with you, you just fucking love them.
page 320
Well, you’re not a man because you like football and you’re not a woman because you’re attracted to men, and you’re not not a chick because you like to be the one that gives, and you’re not not a dude because you like to receive or because sometimes you cry at dumb movies.
page 402