Bouncing Off the Moon Quotes

“...most folks get locked into some idea of what they think gender is supposed to be about, so they put on gender-performances for each other. They act out who they think they have to be. And most of the time, they end up not knowing the difference between the mask they're wearing and who they really are. Charles, a real man doesn't worry what kind of underwear he's wearing, what color it is, or if there's a little lace on the bottom, because he knows he's not his underwear. It doesn't mean anything.

"What you're finding out is that you are not the mask. Because when you can put on one gender-performance, and then take it off and put on another, and then take that one off too, that's when you start to realize how much of what you think is really you is just a performance. And when you can recognize it as a performance, it loses all of its power. That's when you can see the difference clearly between role and real - in yourself and everyone else.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“This time it’s our turn to have the good idea.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I’m very impressed with your creativity.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“We are asking the court recognize the right of the individuals to create a family contract of their own design, immune to the arbitary harassment and legal abuses of others.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“Civil disobedience does not disregard the entire body of law, it challenges only a specific application of the law as unjust with the intention of removing it from body of the law, because the function of the law must be to provide access to justice.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“With all due respect to this court, we’ve had to deal with so many other monkeys in so many other courtrooms, we felt it was only appropriate to bring in our own, so we could compete on equal terms.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“There were times when I loved my brother because he was such a brat.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“I applaud your various successes in making this case a collosal nightmare. I promise to reward each and every one of you appropriately.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“You were listening to the music as deeply as anyone I’ve ever seen. I was so happy for you that day-because you’d discovered something all your own. And I was so glad it was something I could give to you.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“Somebody took my hand in his. It felt like Dad’s hand. Large and warm and safely enveloping. I knew it had to be Douglas holding my hand, but it was nice to pretend it was Dad for a while.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“There was something very strange about the way he was super-polite to us, and then turned raging-beliigerent to invisible people on the other end of the phone, What he was shouting looked an awful lot like the kind of stuff that couldn’t be fixed-that the people on the other end wouldn’t forgive.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“Douglas had a sour expression; he didn’t want to get into this argument. Unfortunately, he’d already pushed the on button, and Alexei didn’t have an off button.”
― David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon