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“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― The Killer Inside Me
― The Killer Inside Me

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

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