Boy Meets Boy Love Quotes

Love is all about flip sides of one coin. For example, it's normal to intensely love and hate the person who just dumped you. "The beginnings and endings are all mixed up" is another way of saying it.

It shouldn't be an anomaly when someone decides to be honest, but unfortunately it is. There are bestselling books that teach both guys and girls how to play games to snag a mate. Most of these games involve pretending you don't like someone to get them to like you—in other words, being mean. Why do people think this is a good idea?

"My until" is a poetic way of saying the guy I can't wait to see. This is one of the things that makes a good writer good—they say ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

Paul's friends Steven and Kate have been together so long people call them Seven and Eight. True love in childhood does happen… just like it happens that some people get struck by lightning or hit by falling pianos.

You know how sometimes, toward the end of a really great date, you get slightly anxious to get home, be alone, and remember it? We're not the only ones who do that, are we? Well this is kind of the same thing. It's another version of "my until."

How many times have you seen someone put their ex on a pedestal after a breakup? They start idealizing some great person who didn't exist, and you're thinking, surely you don't mean that jerk with the bad table manners? When Paul sees Kyle looking miserable, he realizes that sometimes the person who dumped you doesn't move on to a fabulous new life.

We'll go ahead and say it: David Levithan is a poet. His similes and metaphors make us want to hug him.

Three of the four main characters in Boy Meets Boy—Paul, Noah, and Joni—are dealing with the fallout of first love. Ted and Kyle are dealing with it too, moping around on the sidelines, while Chuck's hurting Ted's first love (Joni) to get back at his first love (Infinite Darlene) for rejecting him. If the circumstances surrounding Tony's lack of a first love (and by circumstances we mean homophobic parents) weren't so awful, we might think he was lucky to be spared the drama.

Back to that different-sides-of-the-same-coin thing. What is it that makes love turn into disgust, indifference, or even hate, seemingly overnight, and often without warning?

Australian comedian Tim Minchin tells a story about guy who asked him if believed in love, despite scientific evidence of its existence. Minchin's answer was, "Sure, I believe in love. Love without evidence is… stalking."