26 Quotes by Alex Gino

She had genuinely started to believe that if people could see her onstage as Charlotte, maybe they would see that she was a girl offstage too.

Dad says I’m a late bloomer.''Maybe. Or maybe you’re blooming now, and you’re just not the kind of flower he was expecting.

George stopped. It was such a short, little question, but she couldn't make her mouth form the sounds. Mom, what if I'm a girl?

The play passed by quickly, and yet it seemed to George as though she had been onstage since the beginning of time, as if she were born there and had only now found herself where she had always been.

Someday, somehow, George would have to tell Mom that she was a girl. But this was not that day. And as for how, she had no idea.

If you’re gonna be transgender and all, you’re going to have to be a lot more careful. You won’t be able to throw up on every bully you meet.

She immersed her body in the warm water and tried not to think about what was between her legs, but there it was, bobbing in front of her.

She’s always going on about how we’re not supposed to let people’s expectations limit our choices.

She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too.