All Our Hidden Gifts
Caroline O'Donoghue
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”
“Lily isn't dirty, per se; it's just that she doesn't really like to live in her body. She doesn't like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she'd be much happier.”
“I'm not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I'm not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y'know? Like, whenever I put it on, I'm so aware of how I'm supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”
“She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”
“Lord protect me from beautiful musicians who call you by your last name.”
“Je ne regrette rien," she says softly. "I regret nothing. It's a stupid phrase." "It is?" "If you're an even remotely empathetic or flawed person, you should feel regret. If you behave badly, you should look at it, and learn from it, and go on to treat people better.”
“If you’re an even remotely empathetic or flawed person, you should feel regret. If you behave badly, you should look at it, and learn from it, and go on to treat people better.”
“I think . . . when you’re looking for things that are out of place,” she says softly, “you see all the things that already are.”
“I guess your gender feel natural to you. I'm jealous," he replies. Then he pauses. Thinks about it. "Except, actually, no. I don't think I am. I used to be. But the more I let myself just exist, the more fun it gets. So I try not to question it or label it. I'm trying to just see everything as.. negotiable.”
“Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”
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Book Keywords:
body-image, forgiveness, trans-experience, gender, makeup, femininity, musicians, self-consciousness, sad, morality, romance, girlhood, regret, nonbinary, philosophy, self-image
