How They Met and Other Stories

David Levithan's stories about love will redefine your preconceived notion of what love should be. Love breaks barriers of gender, age, social status, and race. Deep inside, however different we may be, we are all the same.

Favorite quotes:

"You think people are afraid with two boys in love? To hell with that! What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing." 

"Sometimes, you need to be bullied by the truth."

"We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from a distance. 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. But they cause more complications than clarity."

"We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune. I am writing in order to unravel myself, to find out what exactly I'm doing, and why."

"This is what a song can do. Our moments are music, and sometimes - just sometimes - we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung."

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Words create magic. Anonymously written, words are powerful enough to make people imagine something different other than reality. It is called expectation. Words sometimes hypnotize and flatter, giving the wrong impression. However, written words are also the author's form of escape, of what he or she really wants to be. In words, everything is possible. Our bodies only limit what kind of person we can project to others.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares tells us a story of words exchanged in a mysterious red notebook. Follow the adventure of Dash and Lily, as they find themselves falling in love with each other even before they met. 

Favorite quote:

"Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible mountains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic.

For me, danger might be getting out from under the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more on my own, even though I don't know what - or who - awaits me. I wish you were part of this plan. But are you dangerous? Somehow I doubt it. I'm scared you're just a figment of my imagination.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook."