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Nancy Garden (May 15, 1938 – June 23, 2014) 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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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?

Close, Separate, Skins, Soulmate, Two, Understand

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

Climbing, Keep, Mountain, Thing, Top, Views

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Ignorance, People, Reactions, Win, Winning

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.

Against, Annie, Cat, Cats, Forever, Kitchen

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

Girl, Grown, Laugh, Laughing, Might, Young

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.

Dragons, Laughing, Live, Summer

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

Doe, Everyone, Helping Someone, Like, Mean

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Ignorance, Let, Love, Win, Winning

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

Cardboard, Falling In Love, Love, People, Think, Thinking

Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean. " "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

Differences, Everything, Mean, Six, Writing, Wrong