None of the Above Quotes

“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“If there’s one thing I learned from my dad leaving my mom, it’s that love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“That was When I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answerd: Male and Female, And I was None Of The Above.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“My cheeks flushed, and I felt a wave of warmth throughout my body, but not because of the subject matter. Because she had used the word us.
It was one of those times when you don’t realize how lonely you are until, suddenly, there’s someone by your side.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“You know I love you too, sweetie. Forever and ever, until the sun fades.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“And I wondered for the first time whether 'feeling feminine' just meant feeling good in your own skin.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“low expectations were the key to a happy life.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“But what does that mean, to "identify" as a gril? Just because you feel like you´re a girl doesn´t mean that you really are”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“If tonight wasn’t going to be the night—one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew—when was?”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“I’m not saying that you have to become this Übermilitant Intersex Warrior. I’m just telling you to be careful of letting other people define who—and what—you are.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance