David Levithan!

Okay, so I just adore this man's writing. :) Just finished How They Met and Other Stories. Lovely. Especially b/c I'm feeling all lovey and such. Thank you, David, for writing such wonderful books.

Realm of Possibility is still my favorite though.

You know, there's still just so few young adult authors who write fiction for queer kids. That's partly why I love David Levithan. If I was a more accomplished author, I'd write such things. You know what I'd like to see? Young adult lesbian love stories? David and a couple others have written gay boy love stories books, but I can't recall even one about a teenage lesbian couple... Hmmm...might have to research that.

Quotes from How They Met and Other Stories:

I knew I was getting perilously close to opening up my History of Stupid Things Done in the Name of Crushes, but the insidious thing about the History was that I always felt each new blank page had the potential to transform it into a different book. One successful gesture, one successful relationship would suddenly turn it into a History of Stupid Things Done in the Name of Crushes That Were All Redeemed in the End.
--from "Starbucks Boy"

I mean, why is everyone so brainwashed into believing that they have to be in a relationship with one other person? Look at us, Teddy. If anyone were to tell us that the whole girl-boy thing was natural and anything else was unnatural, we'd know they were completely wrong. But have them tell us that every person needs to be with another person in order to be happy, and we nod along like it's the most obvious thing in the world. But there's no reason for it, is theree? It's not a proven truth. It's just some thing that our culture has come to spin itself around, mostly so we'll procreate, and we're the dupes who fall for it over and over and over again.
--from "Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat"

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
--from "Breaking and Entering"

To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.
--from "Without Saying"

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.
--from "Intersection"