Pageboy: A Memoir

by Elliot Page

Here I was on the precipice. Getting closer to my desires, my dreams, me, without the unbearable weight of the self-disgust I’d carried for so long.

“What’s the hardest part of Rollerblading?” “Telling your parents you are gay.”

And yes, my mom knew, but she was disappointed, and that sorrow sprang from the same holy source.

We do not realize the extent of the energy we are losing until we find where it is seeping from.

but when your existence is constantly debated and denied, it sucks you dry.