World Made of Glass Quotes

“the world is going to try very hard to convince you that there’s something wrong with you, and it’s your job to prove to yourself that the world is wrong.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“I’m not strong,” I told her. “I care about what everyone thinks of me. I care about how they’ll react to everything I’m going to say.”
My voice caught, and I cleared my throat. “I care so much.”
She looked me in the eye. We were the same height, and I realized how piercing her dark eyes were. But then she smiled. “Ms. Cohen. Isn’t that the point?” she asked me. “Isn’t that the point of everything?”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“I said, ‘Mom, I’m a homosexual,’ and
she put down the glass that she was washing and said, ‘Jason Randolph Holmes, the world is going to try very hard to convince you that there’s something wrong with you, and it’s your job to prove to yourself that the
world is wrong.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“We are dying because we are gay.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“Julian felt both familiar and unfamiliar, like he understood maybe the tiniest thing about what I was going through while, at the same
time, still being a total stranger. I imagined a paperweight heart beating in his chest and, despite my fiery swirl of emotions, I wanted to see it better.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

“Dad always says that to write a poem, you first have to identify the beating heart of what you want to say. You have to see the heart, and hear it, and hold it in your hands, and then, once you’ve done all of that, you can write around that heart. Even though I’d have to look up ramiferous, I knew right away that the heart of this poem was me—my heart.”
― Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass