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James Dawson QUOTES

James Dawson QUOTES

1 " Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive. "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

2 " Some people just shine a bit brighter than others and it's got nothing to do with what they look like. "

― James Dawson , Say Her Name

3 " Bobbie wondered if that's how long you truly live for - until the last person who remembers you, until the final bouquet on your grave. "

― James Dawson , Say Her Name

4 " You're never truly by yourself when you have a book in your bag. "

― James Dawson , All of the Above

5 " Frankly, if you want to identify as a carrot, I will march in the Carrot Pride parade with you. "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

6 " When you take away our bodies and our names, all that's left is the feeling. And the feeling is like warm honey. "

― James Dawson , All of the Above

7 " Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something. "

― James Dawson , Say Her Name

8 " people aren’t allowed to say what’s really on their minds for fear of upsetting people, we’ll end up never saying anything at all. "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

9 " Lis felt the corners of her mouth turn up a little. She'd never had friends like this. Friends who wanted to see her flourish not fade. Their eager faces were like mirrors in which she could see herself more clearly. "

― James Dawson , Hollow Pike

10 " She shared the burden of Laura's cruelty with the others and was less of a victim as a result. Maybe there was some kind of mathematical formula for it: vulnerability times mockery divided by support, or something. "

― James Dawson , Hollow Pike

11 " When I was little, a year seemed like the longest thing in the world. "

― James Dawson , All of the Above

12 " However you identify, be it lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, curious, or carrot, we all have something in common—we are a minority, and we have made brave steps to identify as such; we have refused to hide and made a declaration of who we are. "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

13 " She had that caged-animal stir-crazy look in eye that only someone who'd endured too much Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women got. "

― James Dawson , All of the Above

14 " It was funny, thought Lis, how everything seemed possible in the middle of the night. The fairy tales had seemed almost laughable at school. They weren't so funny any more. "

― James Dawson , Hollow Pike

15 " It's a never-ending quest for a state of perfection that doesn't exist "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

16 " The less we understand a group in society--the less we bother to learn--the more misconceptions and worries we have. "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

17 " when one of us wobbled we borrowed a little bit of strength from someone who was going better "

― James Dawson , All of the Above

18 " Freud called it ‘transference’. This basically means that you hate in others what you hate about yourself.) "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

19 " O impacto do bullying homofóbico é enorme. Pesquisas realizadas pela Stonewall, uma instituição de caridade britânica em prol dos direitos de pessoas gay, descobriram que 50% dos jovens estudantes LGB* já tinham cabulado aula, enquanto 70% disseram que o bullying tinha afetado seu desempenho na escola. Bom, "

― James Dawson , This Book is Gay

20 " If wishes were fishes, we would all cast a net. "

― James Dawson , Under My Skin