Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 3 (p. 37)
“It was the mystery of my sexual nature that a body which was the mirror image of mine could be so compelling and feel so unfamiliar. When I was younger, it had seemed urgent to unravel this mystery because I believed that if it could be explained, the haters would stop hating us. Now I believed that they had no more right to an explanation about me than I did about them and, in any case, they would find other reasons to hate. Now I was simply grateful for his body beside me, known and unknown.”
Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.55
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