My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
Most of us get our history through story.
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.