Check this book out if you want to relive the rebellions and uncertainties of your (or someone else’s) teenage years, only more intelligently. It’s a piece of brain candy you’ll enjoy sinking your teeth into.
You know what’s not really embarrassing but really awkward? When you and I and our girlfriends at the time were all volunteering at the library together. Actually that’s embarrassing. All four of us were gay and going out with each other and the children’s librarian would always make these comments about us being best friends and how good friends we are.
It was like we were living in this alternate reality, where the north was celebrating and down here in the south we were wondering what the fuck was going on.
Riese: And I also feel like we both — what we look for or hope for in a partner is the same thing. I think both of us look to be with people who fill certain spots in us that are empty. And we have the same empty spots, you know what I mean?
Laneia: Yes! I need somebody who can go into stores and get things for me.
Riese: And somebody who doesn’t stress out or think it’s a big deal when they have to carry a ton of things from one place to another place. And takes charge when necessary. Yeah, we have the same needs. And our partners probably have a lot in common, in certain ways too.
Laneia: Yeah, definitely.
Riese: We would’ve been just lying there on our backs, waiting for someone to call the pizza guy.
Stef: So we went back to Lindsay’s and we filled a water bottle with vodka —
Mila: It wasn’t vodka.
Stef: What was it?
Mila: Do you really want to know?
Stef: Yes.
Mila: ….It was cooking sherry.
Stef: These were dark times.
What was your most embarrassing thing? I guess various crushes on boys. You had a crush on Joe. And you would write about it in your diary, show us your diary, and then tell us not to read your diary.
I would say you are annoyingly good at being thoughtful. Because it makes me look bad by comparison.