“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”
“Everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
“maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen pit, i'm not sure of what i want. ”
“I had been born in order to fillthe great need I had of myself.”
“Kevin had been born to make love to a man, the same way I had.”
“I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.”