Цитаты из книг — Анна-Мари Маклемор

As much as the adored girls called our town old-fashioned, no one made a move to change it. There was no room for me to ask to be called both him and her. There were already too many people who thought I was just a failure as a girl. They wouldn`t listen long enough for me to say that I had never been one. I was a boy who…

I was five, maybe six when I first saw the swans. I remember because Roja was still having her tantrums, so she couldn`t have been older than four. Our parents were trying to train them out of her, our mother by clutching her arm when she wailed for more than a few minutes, our father by crouching to meet her eyes and…