

“Don’t you think it would have been easier just to stay the way you were?” I lifted my face and looked into my mother’s eyes. And I told her: “This is the way I was.” You”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“free will is making a comeback. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“From my birth when they went undetected, to my baptism where they upstaged the priest, to my troubled adolescence when they didn’t do much of anything and then did everything at once, my genitals have been the most significant thing that ever happened to me.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn't feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I'm comfortable with. Just the two of us, here in the dark.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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