“ 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 wander around searching for their other half, and when they… Nancy Garden
“ My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that… Nancy Garden
“ When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay cha… 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. Nancy Garden
“ 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? Nancy Garden
“ It was like a war inside me; I couldn’t even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, ‘No, this is wrong; you know it’s wrong and bad and sinful,’ and there was another that said, ‘Nothing ha… Nancy Garden
“ 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 str… Nancy Garden
“ 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. Nancy Garden
“ And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves? Nancy Garden
“ And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds. Nancy Garden
