Beebo Brinker Quotes

“Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker

“It's not wrong, pal," he said to her back. "You've been brought up to think so. Most of us have. But who are they hurting? Nobody. They're just making each other happy. And you want their heads to roll because it makes you feel funny.”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker

“Does it ever happen that a nice girl is a Lesbian?" she asked him shyly.”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker

“Beebo folded it with the meticulous care you give to the oddments of life that happen to be in your hands when pain strikes; each fold careful, straight, and neat - as tidy as her life was not. There is an obscure comfort in smoothing a small piece of paper to its ultimate neatness. It seems a symbol of order and reason that must somehow rescue you from the chaos of suffering. It eased the misery that wants to pour out of your eyes and wail from your throat. ”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker