“My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it.”
― I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
― I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
“You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”
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“I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life?”
― Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
― Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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