Top 70 Anna-Marie McLemore Quotes (2024 Update)
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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “There was no way to tell their mothers the truth and make them believe it, that hearts that loved boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who they loved. They broke how they broke. And the way it happened depended less on what was under their lovers’ clothes and more on what was wrapped inside their spirits. What secret halls and trapdoors their sounds held, and what each one hid and guarded.”

51. “There was no way to tell their mothers the truth and make them believe it, that hearts that loved boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who they loved. They broke how they broke. And the way it happened depended less on what was under their lovers’ clothes and more on what was wrapped inside their spirits. What secret halls and trapdoors their sounds held, and what each one hid and guarded.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “This is a city where the story they choose to believe about you depends on how well they think of you, and that story can shift as suddenly as the wink of those stars.”

52. “This is a city where the story they choose to believe about you depends on how well they think of you, and that story can shift as suddenly as the wink of those stars.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “That was probably another thing Aracely had almost asked ten times, opening her mouth and then hesitating. Why, to Miel, a pumpkin couldn’t just be a pumpkin. A question Aracely knew better than to say out loud.”

53. “That was probably another thing Aracely had almost asked ten times, opening her mouth and then hesitating. Why, to Miel, a pumpkin couldn’t just be a pumpkin. A question Aracely knew better than to say out loud.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.”

54. “The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “Her mother did not guess that water could be more dangerous when there was less of it.”

55. “Her mother did not guess that water could be more dangerous when there was less of it.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “Even in her nightgown, without her makeup on, Aracely was a slice of color against the window. Her hair was as bright as the fruit of a nectarine. The brown of her skin looked like raw gold stripped from quartz. And she stood tall enough that she looked like she could meet the gaze of the sky out on the horizon.”

56. “Even in her nightgown, without her makeup on, Aracely was a slice of color against the window. Her hair was as bright as the fruit of a nectarine. The brown of her skin looked like raw gold stripped from quartz. And she stood tall enough that she looked like she could meet the gaze of the sky out on the horizon.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “And I was in a fine mood to kick the ass of the boy who had talked me into this only to run off.”

57. “And I was in a fine mood to kick the ass of the boy who had talked me into this only to run off.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “We’d gotten swept up in the impossible magic of so many hearts being fearlessly themselves.”

58. “We’d gotten swept up in the impossible magic of so many hearts being fearlessly themselves.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.′... ‘Look at me,” he says. “Look at this body. My body. Or stop looking. Deny it, and deny me.”

59. “Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.′... ‘Look at me,” he says. “Look at this body. My body. Or stop looking. Deny it, and deny me.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “She wanted you to have the life you wanted,′ Aracely said. ‘So figure out what kind of life you want.”

60. “She wanted you to have the life you wanted,′ Aracely said. ‘So figure out what kind of life you want.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “We find what is beautiful in what is broken. We find what is heartening in what is terrifying. We find the stars in the woods’ deepest shadows.”

61. “We find what is beautiful in what is broken. We find what is heartening in what is terrifying. We find the stars in the woods’ deepest shadows.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.”

62. “No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “My hope for you, reader, for all of us, is two sides of the same wish: that the world gives us each the space to write our own story, and that we leave room for each other’s stories. They are where our hearts survive.”

63. “My hope for you, reader, for all of us, is two sides of the same wish: that the world gives us each the space to write our own story, and that we leave room for each other’s stories. They are where our hearts survive.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “Now, to save Tante and herself, she must deny her mother and her father, the dead in the ground, her own blood and her aunt’s. – Lala.”

64. “Now, to save Tante and herself, she must deny her mother and her father, the dead in the ground, her own blood and her aunt’s. – Lala.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “I would have sworn to a priest that Gatsby’s smile pulled light in through the windows.”

65. “I would have sworn to a priest that Gatsby’s smile pulled light in through the windows.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “The sense of falling did not touch her, not as long as her body was between the hands of this boy who felt steadier in the air than on the ground.”

66. “The sense of falling did not touch her, not as long as her body was between the hands of this boy who felt steadier in the air than on the ground.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “They’d spent enough time together that their bodies had pulled on each other, and they now bled at the same time, when the moon was a thin curve of light. If Miel had been anyone else, her knowing this, the steady rhythm of her knowing every month, would have been humiliating.”

67. “They’d spent enough time together that their bodies had pulled on each other, and they now bled at the same time, when the moon was a thin curve of light. If Miel had been anyone else, her knowing this, the steady rhythm of her knowing every month, would have been humiliating.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “They would remember only that Miel and Sam had been called Honey and Moon, a girl and a boy woven into the folklore of this place.”

68. “They would remember only that Miel and Sam had been called Honey and Moon, a girl and a boy woven into the folklore of this place.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “Today i solved a problem my mother knew nothing about,” Estrella said. Her words twisted, each one sounding harder, like a knot tightening. “She still doesn’t. I fixed it, and she had no idea. My mother, all our mothers, they think they’re holding everything up, but we have it too. It’s ours too. So forget what my nother thinks i should or shouldn’t be doing because we’re going and getting some damn cotton candy, okay?”

69. “Today i solved a problem my mother knew nothing about,” Estrella said. Her words twisted, each one sounding harder, like a knot tightening. “She still doesn’t. I fixed it, and she had no idea. My mother, all our mothers, they think they’re holding everything up, but we have it too. It’s ours too. So forget what my nother thinks i should or shouldn’t be doing because we’re going and getting some damn cotton candy, okay?”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “When they both realized they were heartbroken enough to want the love torn from their rib cages, they touched each other with their hands and their mouths, and they forgot they wanted to be cured.”

70. “When they both realized they were heartbroken enough to want the love torn from their rib cages, they touched each other with their hands and their mouths, and they forgot they wanted to be cured.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “I would find a way to make sure we never had to destroy something of ourselves just to stop other people from taking it. – Rosella.”

71. “I would find a way to make sure we never had to destroy something of ourselves just to stop other people from taking it. – Rosella.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “We made it our home,” Estrella said. “So now we live here.”

72. “We made it our home,” Estrella said. “So now we live here.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “That I was a boy, but it was not as simple as me wanting to be called he. That I liked being called he and him. But that I would’ve liked being called she and her sometimes, too, if it didn’t let everyone settle into the assumption that I was a girl. I had never been a girl, would never be a girl...”

73. “That I was a boy, but it was not as simple as me wanting to be called he. That I liked being called he and him. But that I would’ve liked being called she and her sometimes, too, if it didn’t let everyone settle into the assumption that I was a girl. I had never been a girl, would never be a girl...”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “The rich sons and daughters who drank champagne on his lawn whispered his name as though trying to grasp something, wondering if everything they remembered about the great Gatsby had been a dream.”

74. “The rich sons and daughters who drank champagne on his lawn whispered his name as though trying to grasp something, wondering if everything they remembered about the great Gatsby had been a dream.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “He’s not stupid,” she said. “He just speak a language none of you bothered to learn.”

75. “He’s not stupid,” she said. “He just speak a language none of you bothered to learn.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “She smelled like halved apples and the new metal of sewing needles and a little like cinnamon.”

76. “She smelled like halved apples and the new metal of sewing needles and a little like cinnamon.”

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Anna-Marie McLemore Quote: “I open the cabinet where there’s a shelf that’s all tea. Every lesbian needs a ridiculous amount of tea, and that goes double for a couple composed of two lesbians, Mom always says. It’s in the manual they gave me when I came out. I can show you.”

77. “I open the cabinet where there’s a shelf that’s all tea. Every lesbian needs a ridiculous amount of tea, and that goes double for a couple composed of two lesbians, Mom always says. It’s in the manual they gave me when I came out. I can show you.”

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