Meredith Russo Quotes

I know it hurts. I know it hurts so bad you can barely breathe sometimes. I know because I've been there. Please don't leave us. I promise life can be good, and we need you too much.

You know walls are there for a reason though, right? They keep things from falling apart.

I thought of going the rest of my life pretending I sprang to life from nothing at sixteen years old and felt my cheeks flush with shame and anger. I was so tired of cowering. I was so tired of hiding. I wanted to tell the truth, to say it out loud.

I wondered when I'd reach the end of things I didn't know. *

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

'It's okay, you know,' Bee said quietly, taking a long drag of her cigarette. 'Whatever it is you can't tell me.' She met my eyes. 'It's gonna be okay.'

I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.

I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.'
'Everybody's got a past,' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.

I've seen trans people in movies and TV shows, but judging by how unrealistic and shitty bi characters tend to be, I'm gonna assume I know nothing. So what's okay for me to ask?

I have, in some ways, cleaved to stereotypes and even bent rules to make Amanda's trans-ness as unchallenging to normative assumptions as possible.

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

There is no wrong way to express and embody your most authentic self!

Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.
I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn't love me, who said 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. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.

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

Everybody's got a pas. " he said. "That dosen't mean you can't have a future

You tried to kill yourself," she said, rolling her eyes up to heaven and biting her knuckle. "Andrew Hardy was gonna die one way or the other, and one of the choices gave me a daughter in exchange while the other left me with no one." "I

Being a girl in this world means being afraid. That fear'll keep you safe. It'll keep you alive.

Im Not Brave..
Bravery Implies That I Had A Choice,
Im Just Me You Know?

I'm not brave," I said, smiling despite myself. "Bravery implies I had a choice. I'm just me, you know?" I

You can have anything once you admit you deserve it.

I think I'm allergic or something. I feel kinda strange... sort of floaty and light-headed."

"You ain't sick, hon," Mom said. She kissed me cheek and hugged me so tight I thought I might break a rib. "That's joy.

That´s your problem. You work so, so hard to be boring so you can impress boring people.

[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.

that you think makes you so complicated couldn't make me

Radical faith means you trust that the Lord visited these weaknesses and sorrows on you as part of His plan...

When we got to the house he opened the trash-can lid and tossed the baseball mitts inside.

"Bye, Andrew," I said softly.

"Bye, son," Dad agreed, as we went inside.

A spark of electricity passes from me and into him, flooding out of my crowded heart and into his. I wonder what Morgan's heart is like compared to mine. Empty isn't the right word, though it's the first that comes to mind. Minimalist. Maybe it's more like yin and yang, like his heart is a dark, cool room after a hot, exhausting day.

If I were gay and I heard everyone around me constantly calling everything they don't like gay and yelling 'fag!' at the drop of a hat, maybe that would make it hard to come out even to people I care about.

You can have anything," she said, "once you admit you deserve it.

I like him a lot.... I think I might love him. And it obviously isn't everything, but being the way I am has been a huge part of my life. It's easy to act like my past never happened, but it feels like I've put up this wall around my heart.