Melissa
Alex Gino
Top 10 Best Quotes
“My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that”
“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.”
“She told Kelly about her bag of girls’ magazines, and about Mom taking it. “But that’s not fair!” Kelly was indignant. “You didn’t steal them! What right does she have to take them from you?” “Sometimes transgender people don’t get rights.” George had read on the Internet about transgender people being treated unfairly. “That’s awful.” “I know.”
“The play will begin at six sharp. Parents and family, I hope you'll stay for the PTA meeting that will follow." A few parents coughed in response. George knew that coughing was the adult equivalent of groaning.”
“Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.”
“Scott looked at George as if his sibling made sense to him for the first time. George had never been gladder to have an older brother.”
“Girl problems?” Scott asked, his eyes focused on the television screen as the cloud creature announced the start of the next course. “No,” George said. She knew that wasn’t true. Being a secret girl was a giant problem.”
“Some of us take death very seriously.” Ms. Udell’s words were icy. She looked at Jeff and Rick in turn; they each stared at their sneakers. “It is a solemn topic, and I hope that you will respect yourselves, your classmates, and life itself by treating it as such.”
“My dad’s cleaning!” Kelly announced. “What do you think?” “Wow,” said George. That seemed to cover the extent of the damage. “Got to mess it up before you can fix it up,” Kelly’s dad yelled over the music.”
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transgender, trans, art, alex-gino, clean, childhood, life-lessons, brother, rights, mess, respect, george, death-and-dying, lgbtqia-characters, humor, death, siblings, human-rights
