Nancy Garden Quotes & Sayings

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

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 ... — Nancy Garden

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. — Nancy Garden

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible. — Nancy Garden

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. — Nancy Garden

We were what seemed important then, not some label. — Nancy Garden

It's raining, Annie. — Nancy Garden

Real, but sometimes beautiful. — 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

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. — 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 streets. — Nancy Garden

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

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

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 find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That's why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male. — Nancy Garden

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. — Nancy Garden

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? — Nancy Garden

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

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 has ever felt so right and natural and true and good," and another that said it was happening too fast, and another that just wanted to stop thinking altogether and fling my arms around Annie and hold her forever. There were other sides, too, but I couldn't sort them out. — Nancy Garden

Too much beauty can be hard to bear. — Nancy Garden

Don't let ignorance win. Let love. — Nancy Garden