Nancy Garden Quotes

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?

Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

Oh," she said, putting her hand to her throat -- it was a suprisingly long, slender hand, in contrast to the roundness of her face.

We were what seemed important then, not some label.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Real, but sometimes beautiful.