Nancy Garden Quotes

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

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.

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.

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.

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?

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

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