The Days of Anna Madrigal Quotes

“It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“The menu at the Hug Deli included, among other items, the Warm and Fuzzy Hug, the Beverly Hills Air Kiss Hug, and the Gangsta Hug, with side orders of Pinch, Tickle, and Back Scratch. She ordered the Long Uncomfortable Hug, because she thought that was funny, thereby prompting a nut-brown Venice Beach-looking dude to hold on to her, earnestly pokerfaced, for a seeming eternity.
"Are you uncomfortable yet?"
"Fairly, yes."
"Excellent. My work here is done."
She laughed and mounted on her bike, pedalling away from the zany mirage as her gratuitous hugger shouted "Namaste" in her direction.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“Brian’s face turned pouty. “So you were just blowing smoke up my ass.” Anna smiled dimly. “You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn’t blowing.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“Michael’s generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he’d found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn’t have it then, and he didn’t have it now. To him, the biggest advantage of being queer was being queer.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly genie-summoned the Blue Moon Lodge. It was Winnemucca condensed, this book, the only thing she owned that could still predictably take her from here to there.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“It makes more sense if you’ve lived it.” A”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“C'était le grand point fort de l'amour : quelqu'un qui vous attend et vous déclare que le chemin sera moins pénible, à partir de maintenant. Même si ce n'est peut-être pas vrai.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?” “I might. I could.” “You have to have a plan, Lasko.” “No, I don’t. Not after this. I don’t have to have a plan in the world.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved by the sheer accumulation of loss. Grief-fiti. That’s what it was.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal

“Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal