“The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths.” — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
“We made it our home,” Estrella said. “So now we live here.” — Anna-Marie McLemore Home Copy Share Image
“As though their daughters loving men and women meant they wanted all of them in the world. There was no way to… — Anna-Marie McLemore Men and women Copy Share Image
“This is was what their mothers would say if she and her cousins ever told them the things they folded inside their… — Anna-Marie McLemore Bisexuality Copy Share Image
“Twice as many paths to trouble,' their mothers would whisper. As though their daughters loving men and women meant they wanted all… — Anna-Marie McLemore Bisexuality Copy Share Image
“Her feeling that the moon had slipped from her grasp seemed locked in a place so far inside her that to reach… — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
“No,' she whispered over those fields. 'No, you can't have this part of me.' If they tried to take Sam, she'd do… — Anna-Marie McLemore Garden Copy Share Image
“It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they wore skirts. Not… — Anna-Marie McLemore Language Copy Share Image
“Her mother did not guess that water could be more dangerous when there was less of it.” — Anna-Marie McLemore Mother Copy Share Image
“The fact that Aracely might understand what he could not say, it seeded in him a want, new and raw, like not… — Anna-Marie McLemore Winter rain Copy Share Image
“They’d spent enough time together that their bodies had pulled on each other, and they now bled at the same time, when… — Anna-Marie McLemore Enough time Copy Share Image
“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.” — Anna-Marie McLemore Love Copy Share Image
“He’s not stupid,” she said. “He just speak a language none of you bothered to learn.” — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
“Look," Aracely said. "I know what you're going through." "No you don't." Sam sat up. "I still have to live like this.… — Anna-Marie McLemore Gender Copy Share Image
“The truth slid over her skin, that if she loved him, sometimes it would mean doing nothing. It would mean being still.… — Anna-Marie McLemore Love Copy Share Image
“Of course he would think the whole glittering universe existed to spin anything he wanted out of stardust. He was a man,… — Anna-Marie McLemore Privilege Copy Share Image
“[...] that hearts that loved boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who… — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
“To the boys who get called girls, the girls who get called boys, and those who live outside these words. To those… — Anna-Marie McLemore Lgbtqia Copy Share Image
