45 Quotes by Meredith Russo

I wonder if maybe I just can’t cry anymore, if maybe growing up means testosterone is running through my body like an invading army, butchering and bunting everything tender.

Transitioning had reawakened it a little, but it was hard to place too much hope in a God so many people said hated me.

Hell, even the straight people have enough skeletons in their closet to fill a tomb. Everybody’s too afraid of going to hell or getting made fun of to be honest about what they want and who they are, so they can’t even really admit what they want to themselves.

There are enough people waiting to crap in your cereal without you doing it for them.

Bravery means I had a choice.

How much of life was like that, just waiting for me to come and give it a chance.

I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said that I didn’t have a place on Earth – they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted.

You can’t have art if you spend all your time forgetting pain.

God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted.