Now You See Me Quotes

“And you look back, and you think, 'How could you be so dim?' There was nothing about it that worried me, though. I just sailed on, oblivious, I think because I knew nothing about it at all, and also because I thought it was just the same for everybody else. (...) So my feelings weren't troubling to me, which in a way I do feel I've benefited from, as my life has gone on; but it was a long time before I realised precisely what it was.”
― Jane Traies, Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories

“I cannot imagine what life would have been like if I had not been lesbian, because it has never really crossed my mind that I could be anything else.”
― Jane Traies, Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories

“I've had a lot of experiences which I wouldn't have had if I'd been straight. I don't regret being gay. In some ways, it makes you more able to cope with getting older. I remember Jackie saying, when we were splitting up, 'You're really lucky, because wherever you go in the country you will have a ready-made supply of friends.' And that's true. There's always a gay community wherever you go.”
― Jane Traies, Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories

“I was never unhappy about being gay, because I just didn't think there was any option. It was just me. I did feel that I would have preferred not to have been, because I thought it would have been easier; but it was so much part of me, that I couldn't imagine, actually, being any different. I think I've had a more interesting life, being gay.”
― Jane Traies, Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories