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“And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.”
“And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”
“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 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 ...”
“Theres a Greek legendno, its in something Plato wroteabout 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 ...”
“It was like a war inside me; I couldnt even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, No, this is wrong; you know its wrong and bad and sinful, and there was another that said, Nothing has ...”
“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.”
“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 t...”
“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...”
