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„she said the ocean was deep, but people were deeper and i knew she was right because she was wide like the river we couldn't cross and deep like the sky.“ (Cannady, 119).

„I keep thinking about the rules, what girls can and can't do, how boys are supposed to be the ones to call or to kiss or to hold your hand and I know she's not a boy but I feel like a girl around her, and I don't know how this is supposed to work. I'm a girl and she's a boy but she's not and that's why I like her so much, the way she's not a boy. But I don't know what to do with her.“ (Vickers, 111)

Some of these really don’t come across as lesbian fiction but idk 🤨

„In fact, what was happening with Monica and Gerry made us feel good about ourselves. It was a reminder for us that this hostile world still held the possibility of unexpected moments of intense joy.“ (Feinberg, 75).

„Millie bit her lip. How can I? she thought. By then, the mother wasn't even getting up to bake biscuits, and Sammy and Hannah were almost toddling, and who'd put dinner on the table? Flossie left. Millie didn't cry, there was too much to do. But it felt like the earth had cracked open, so she stepped careful, trying not to fall in.“ (Frye, 42).

„All afternoon I daydream I'm talking with my aunt. This move has filled me up with questions. I want to tell someone who knew me long ago what we're doing. I want her to know where I am.“ (Smith, 29)

„But I have been afraid. Afraid of need, of loving someone who can leave... Loving doesn't terrify me. Loss does.“ (Smith, 32-33).

„And the hope of a moment’s attention. But I lust for the paper, the opiate of it, to cover our emptiness, our so obvious emptiness.“ (Millet, 24).

„If i had not listened to this poem. If i had not remembered. If i had not realized. If i did not know.“ (Millet, 26)

„They could make a movie about Inez and Abby, so that people would see that lesbians are beautiful, there is nothing, nothing at all unnatural about them, they too can have weddings and be in the movies.“ (Nachman, 20).