Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.