Bill Konigsberg

“I shivered. Careful, I told myself. You don't want to set yourself up for a fall. Be happy. Just not too happy.”

— Bill Konigsberg

“It’s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly they’re not in it anymore. It doesn’t matter…

— Bill Konigsberg

Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone…

— Bill Konigsberg

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing…

— Bill Konigsberg

“To agape,” we all echoed, raising our wineglasses and drinking to higher love.”

— Bill Konigsberg

“Then Albie reached into his pocket and pulled out one shiny Jonathan apple. “Hungry?” he asked us. “How’d you do that?” I…

— Bill Konigsberg

“I think some people are bi, definitely.”

— Bill Konigsberg

“When trust is violated, it's like you're left with an empty piggy bank. Building trust again, she said, is like putting big,…

— Bill Konigsberg

“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side,…

— Bill Konigsberg

“Why can’t I just be bad?” I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about. “Well, that’s…

— Bill Konigsberg

“We hugged, and my dad cried a little. I don't have a macho-type dad, who hunts and fishes and collects guns. He's…

— Bill Konigsberg

“A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else…

— Bill Konigsberg

“was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh.…

— Bill Konigsberg

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

— Bill Konigsberg

“And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it…

— Bill Konigsberg

“The finite, to me, was a thing of beauty. There was a start and an end. Someday we'd all be history, and…

— Bill Konigsberg

“As I said, it wasn't even a gay thing. But it made me think how hard some kids have it with their…

— Bill Konigsberg

“It’s not, like, denial? In the GSA we joke that bi guys are just gay guys who aren’t ready to admit it…

— Bill Konigsberg

Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up…

— Bill Konigsberg

“I think anyone who stops at a gas station at night is up to no good. I think that if cops want…

— Bill Konigsberg

“But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want…

— Bill Konigsberg

“We were at a swap meet in Cochituate last year, and there was this Boy Scout troop with a sign that read,…

— Bill Konigsberg

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

— Bill Konigsberg

“I worry sometimes that our world actually values a lack of intelligence. Like we are considered normal if we spend our time…

— Bill Konigsberg

“Anyway, my whole thing is, whatever path I'm on, I'm on. I'm not going to avoid it because it's harder for the…

— Bill Konigsberg