16 Quotes by April Daniels

A new day is born in gleaming fire, rippling pools of light racing in from the horizon. It is one of the most breathtaking sights you can see. And we miss every second of it. We only have eyes for each other.

But I don’t get to fit. Not anywhere.

The lie is suffocating. Every time I have to play along, I feel like I'm betraying myself. Sometimes when I see myself in a mirror, I get a little splash of fear sluicing down my spine.

So much time lost, so much of my childhood gone, because nobody every asked the right questions.

I guess I just thought that I was finally a real girl.""Hey! None of that!" She takes me by the shoulders. "You think it's a uterus that makes a woman? Bullshit. You feel like you're a girl, you live it, it's part of you? Then you're a girl. That's the end of it, no quibbling. You're as real a girl as anyone.

Is she brave enough to say that for the first time since puberty started, she doesn't daydream about being dead? That she's wonderfully, terribly, gloriously alive? That the world is so beautiful it hurts?

So they spit on me. They're embarrassed by me. They hate me.FOR A MISTAKE THAT THEY MADE.

There’s too much self loathing bottled up inside me; it gets in the way, keeps me from seeing myself and what I really want.

There’s a brief, fiery moment where I want to throw it back in her face and spit on her, but the look on her face punctures my spite.