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“You chose her over me, Juliette.”

"Why did lesbians have to keep breaking up even after doing so several times already? Not everything was meant to be analyzed. Sometimes things were better left alone."

"The steps and the moves were more than risky. They were downright risqué."

“Even in your pas de deux, you carry his weight. He is one of the best male dancers I’ve ever seen, but he is just that—a male.”

“Sure, sparrows can teach pigeons and eagles how to fly if they really have no idea how (...) but the pegasus and dragons have nothing to learn from sparrows.”

"I’ve never claimed to be straight. If people have made a wrong assumption based on who I was married to, that’s their problem, not mine."

"A woman existing independently of their rule is an insult to them.”

"This hunger that has risen inside me – I hardly know how to parse it. I can eat and eat and will never be satisfied. I want more. I want – I want to scream, I want to dance, I want to slap Carmilla for leaving me, I want to kill Henry for what he has done, but in the same breath, he is so beautiful that the animal part of me wants to fuck him, take the pleasure that is owed me. (...) I want to be free."

"If I see Carmilla this morning, I will lose myself to the soft caress of her hand, her honeyed words and knowing gaze. I must rise early, with the birds, and be about my business before my hand falters and I lose my way."

"‘It is a melody to me. You are a song, Lenore, harmony and discord. I am learning to sing it.'"

"To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend."

"Garden seems to like roots, and this book roots in rootlessness. Are you a tumbleweed, then? A dandelion seed? / You are yourself, and so remain, as I remain."

"So, in this letter, I am yours. Not Garden's, not your mission's, but yours, alone. I am yours in other ways as well: yours as I watch the world for your signs, apophenic as a haruspex; yours as I debate methods, motives, chances of delivery; yours as I review your words by their sequence, their sound, smell, taste, taking care no one memory of them becomes too worn. Yours."

"Sex improves when decoupled—sorry—from animalist procreative desperation (or even from the desperation of not having had sex in a while, as I've had cause to note after my recent two decades' sojourn and attendant dry spell)."

So far, I've really been enjoying the book's humour. I appreciate how the story is told so as to only reveal a glimpse of Red and Blue's lives. The universe feels vast, yet intimate.