Quotes from "Odd Girl"

HER NAME IS ANNE, SHE IS YOUNG, THERE ARE NO BILLBOARDS TO TELL HER HOW TO BEHAVE, NO PAST EXPERIENCE, NO CULTURAL HERITAGE TO LINE HER PATH WITH CUSHIONS. SHE IS VERY INFATUATED WITH BETH...

HER EYES HAD MET

"TOMORROW, ANNE! BETH REPEATED. ANNE'S AND WERE STRONG AND DEFINITE. ANNE SAW THEM AND REALIZED BETH KNEW...

AT A GAY BAR SHE MEETS SKIPPY...

NOW THAT SKIPPY HAD SPOKEN TO HER SHE DID NOT SEEM SO STRANGE. AGAIN ANNE MARVELLED AT HERSELF. AN UNATTRACTIVE MAN DID NOT GROW ATTRACTIVE WHEN SHE SPOKE TO HIM, ONLY MORE REPULSIVE, AND YET SKIPPY MADE HER FEEL AT EASE.

ANNE'S GAY BUDDY, JACQUES, INTRODUCES HER TO ESTHER, DARK, REMO TE ESTHER.

FINALLY ESTHER SAID, "WHAT IS IT YOU WANT OF ME?"

ANNE SHRUGGED, "SOMEONE TO LOVE, I GUESS," SHE SAID. ESTHER LAUGHED. "AND I WANT SOMEONE TO LOVE ME." SHE TURNED AND LOOKED INTENTLY AT ANNE. "THERE'S A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US."

IN A SMALL, INEXPENSIVE RESTAURANT ANNE MEETS PRU JOHNSON.

ANNE LOOKED AT HER A MOMENT. THERE WAS SOMETHING WONDERFULLY KIND ABOUT HER EYES; THEY WERE LIVING EYES, MORE ALIVE THAN BETH'S, MORE ALIVE THAN ESTHER'S. THEY WERE EYES LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ANNE AND NOT FAR AWAY AT THE HORIZON.

AND IN THE END

BUT WHY NOT READ THE BOOK FOR YOURSELF.

B.G.

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