And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets. — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young. — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said,… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“The first day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to be… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.” — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies,… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young. — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need;… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“It felt a little as if we'd found a script that had been written just for us, and we were reading through the beginning… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“Chad kept kidding me that I was in love, and asking with whom, and then Sally and Walt did, too, and after a while… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“I went downstairs to Dad’s encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn’t tell me much about any of the things I felt. What… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image