Nancy Garden Quotes

#1. The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

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#2. She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.

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#3. Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

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#4. And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

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#8. 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 wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference.
And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

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#9. Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

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#10. The first day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to be able to do that forever: stand in kitchens watching Annie feed cats. Our kitchens. Our cats.

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#11. It's raining, Annie.

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#12. It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

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#13. Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

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#14. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

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#15. 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, two separate skins?

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#16. We were what seemed important then, not some label.

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#17. Real, but sometimes beautiful.

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#18. 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; she's happy, too-we both were till this happened ...

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