Out of the Pocket Quotes

“I was in the closet... with Tamera Muncie.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket

“The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There’s storge, which is family love. That’s not us. There’s eros, which is sexual love. There’s philia, which is brotherly love. And then there’s the highest form. Agape. He pronounced it "aga-pay." "That’s transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself."
"You are so going to get into Harvard."
He laughed. “So, obviously our friendship is to some degree philia.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket