Just Lizzie Quotes

“I knew that asexuality was a real thing, and I knew that what I was feeling was real. But something about hearing her say, Sure, I can understand that, was like a lightning bolt to my core. If I want to be the way I am in the world, then more people need to know that the way I am exists.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“Now here’s this word that tells me that what I am not is actually what I am. Something—I’m something.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“Sarah Nan takes me by the wrist and pulls me away. 'Lizzie, you were talking to a boy!'

'It's no big deal,' I tell her. Maybe it was--because it didn't feel like talking to a boy. It felt like talking to a person.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“Asexual. The prefix 'a-' means 'not.' Hasn't my life always been about what I'm not? Not pretty, not athletic, not interested, not ready--but now here's this word that tells me that what I am not is actually what I am. Something--I'm something.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“Running isn't me. This body also isn't me. It's a bunch of skin and fat and skeleton carrying around the real me, my brain or my spirit or whatever it is that makes Lizzie. Sometimes I think it was a mistake that I wound up in this body--maybe even a mistake that I wound up being human. Maybe I was supposed to be a tree. Tall, steady, solitary, wise. Watching the rest of the world run.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“How do you “start” liking boys? I’ve always thought it was an unsettling idea: Something deep inside you, ticking down, unheard, until one day, ding! You go off like some kind of microwave.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

“I thought having a name for myself, asexual, would be the answer. It isn’t, though. I don’t just want to know myself. I want other people to know me, understand me, believe me. So that I can actually be myself.”
― Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie