Quotes by Nancy Garden

About Nancy Garden:

Nancy Garden was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults, best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind. She received the 2003 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association recognizing her lifetime contribution in writing for teens, citing Annie alone.
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And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

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Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Nancy Garden

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole a...

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The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

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Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

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Author Bio

  • NameNancy Garden
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 15, 1938
  • DiedJune 24, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksAnnie On My Mind
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award; Lambda Literary Award