“Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.”

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.”

“It's just such a big commitment," Brandy says, "being a girl, you know. Forever."Taking the hormones. For the rest of her life. The pills, the patches, the injections, for the rest of her life. And what if there wassomeone, just one person who would love her, who could make her life happy, just the way she was, without the hormones and make-up and the clothes and shoes and surgery? She has to at least look around the world a little.”

“With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.”

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”