Realm of Possibility (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Daniel: is a senior. He is neighbors with Pete. He started dating Jed in their junior year. Together they smoke a pack of cigarettes over time as a means of bonding. He went trick-or-treating with Anne one year as Charlie Chaplin.
• Pete: Add a description of this character.
• Jed
• Anne
• Megan
• Diana
• Lily

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• “There was a time before you but I can't remember it now.”

  Diana

• “Back came the feelings I would not allow. Back came my chances to give.”

  Diana

• “I find that I'm losing my hold on th thread that binds us together that ties me so tightly that keeps me attached to th things left unsaid.”

  Diana

• “I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip.”

  Diana

• “You ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. You don't recognize the shape, offer other names.”

  Megan

• “Undo the not-doing with one gesture.”

  Megan

• “Maybe there's hope in fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”

• “There is no word for our kind of friendship. 2 people who dont see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy.”

  Lily

• “How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

  Jed

• “I don't think we will ever want to know each other that well, beyond surprise.”

  Jed

• “You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.”

  Jed

• “Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility”

  Jed

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• Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize i have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Levithan (Author)

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• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults

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• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Being a Teen
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Short Story Collections
• Books › Children's Books › Issues › School
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction

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