"What’s up with the whole couple thing anyway? … I mean, why is everyone so brainwashed into believing that they have to be in a relationship with one other person? … [H]ave them tell us that every person needs to be with another person in order to be happy, and we nod along like it’s the most obvious thing in the world. But there’s no reason for it, is there? It’s not a proven truth. It’s just some thing that our culture has come to spin itself around…."
David Levithan, How They Met, “Miss Lucy had a Steamboat” (via asexyquotes)
I think I need to read more David Levithan, since a lot of quotes from his books end up here.