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“I don’t want to be anybody’s girl; I want to be my own person.”

“A part of me wonders if I should stop bathing or wet myself at school or make my father cry, so that I have a real reason to feel ashamed. All I’ve done is fall for Susannah. It is not shameful or radical or wild. Anybody would fall for Susannah. I never meant to upset anybody.”

“This is a moment of great peace, when, for the first time, I am not afraid of my feelings. I want her, I just want her, there isn't anything sordid about it—actually, it's the most beautiful feeling I've ever known.
It is simple. It is natural. I move, I kiss her.”

“Does liking Susannah make me the same as that? I don’t want to be a thing that the village isn’t supposed to know about.”

The sapphic yearning is really beautiful but there are things happening with the punctuation in this book that no sane editor should have ever allowed