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'“My mother said there are no homosexuals in our family.” / “Maybe there aren’t, but there might be a lesbian.”'

'"This is my last year of freedom, and I’m going to make it one to remember."'

"In her imagination, Tommy had been like a matinee idol—sweet-faced and tender. In reality, Tommy was a woman made of flesh and blood, and that frightened Lily most of all."

"Sometimes he felt as if he never saw past the surface anymore; it was safer to look at the world with a detached, clinical eye."

"There was a stage between wakefulness and sleep when she seemed to be able to direct her unconscious mind; the problem was, she could never be sure when that stage began or ended."

"This bright, clean restaurant in Chinatown that smelled of sugar and cream was not the place to ask, but Lily felt as if her thoughts must be written in plain English on her face. Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am."

"An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image, a strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited, for a people she resembled but did not know. As she stared blankly down at her textbook, she thought that perhaps it was patriotism, but not for America. For China."

"She slowed down to let her mother go ahead of her, as if that might make others think they weren’t together."

"If she were exceptionally daring, she would cut away the words TOMMY ANDREWS MALE IMPERSONATOR from this ad and pin up the picture in the space left by the moon colony. She doubted that anyone—even Shirley—would realise that the photo was not of a man."