- Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden
- “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 every time when you finally get there.”
- “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 struck me most, though, was that, in the whole long article, the word “love” wasn’t used even once. That made me mad; it was as if whoever wrote the article didn’t know that gay people actually love each other. The encyclopedia writers ought to talk to me, I thought as I went back to bed; I could tell them something about love.”
- “Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.”
- "Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.”
- "It's terrible for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we every right to read."
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- “It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”
- “Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.”
- “Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”
- “You gay?” “Oh, I wouldn’t say I was gay. I’d just say I was enchanted.” “Me too.”
- “No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.”
- “I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself. But I knew better on all counts. I wish I could make my films. That wish I can work for.”
- "You have to do some of the things everybody does or people don't like you" “I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.”
- “I'm queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can't hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing? Makes no sense.”
- Well, if it makes a difference to them, the hell with them, too. I can’t see why it’s such a big deal. Who cares how you get here? I don’t care. I really don’t care. I got myself born, that’s what counts. I’m here."
- "You amaze me. You are for sure getting yourself screwed on rules other people make."
- "You damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead kid; don't listen to nobody but your own self"
- "Why does it get to me?Why can't I just write off those people the way they write me off? Why does it always get through and hurt?"
- "I mean men bore me. If one of them behaves like an adult it's cause for celebration, and even when they do act human, they still aren't as good in bed as women."
- "Carrie, Carrie whose politics are to the right of Genghis Khan. Who believes that if the good Lord wanted us to live together he'd have made us all one color. Who believes a woman is only as good as the man she's with/ And I love her. Even when I hated her, I loved her. Maybe all kids love their mothers."
aug 7 2018 ∞
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