Jamie Perkins

“There’s something truly wonderful about referring to a procedure as specific as a bilateral mastectomy with a term as blandly ominous as “top surgery.”
Is it serious, Doc?
Yeah, son. I’m afraid there’s nothing to do but schedule you for top surgery.
What parts of me will be affected, Doc?
The top.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“Trying not to transition was the hardest work in the world. The nicest thing about transition was letting go.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“Nobody is asking me to apologize for anything, but I still want to, if only for the pleasure and the sweetness and the release of being forgiven.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month younger—if you'd asked me just five minutes ago, four and a half even, if I'd picked up on the first ring instead of the third, I'd transition. Hell, I'd transition. Oh my God, I wish I could transition. Ask me again, but sooner. Come back yesterday. Come back a week ago. What good are you to me now, when I'm—this? Where were you when there was still summer in my heart? Come back a month ago, a decade, but come back to before I had to forgive you. Just come back and ask again; I'll wait if it takes forever this time.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You