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
“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
“She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.” — Nancy Garden Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
