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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. -- David Levithan
like the airwaves were taking a little longer to get here, so we could live in yesterday a little longer, even if it felt wrong. -- David Levithan
That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors. -- David Levithan
Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands. -- David Levithan
The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts.
But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left. -- David Levithan
Why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT! -- David Levithan
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right. -- David Levithan
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. -- David Levithan
Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.
It's with Ariel.
"There's no such thing as homework," I said.
"What?"
"I mean, I left it at home. -- David Levithan
So I do what I always vowed not to do, and always found myself doing anyway. I throw "I miss you" into the breach. It even feels empty to me. Like I'm not saying it to the right person. -- David Levithan
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. -- David Levithan
Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language. -- David Levithan
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun. -- David Levithan
The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath. -- David Levithan
(well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys) -- David Levithan
Solipsistic, adj.
Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that. -- David Levithan
LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.
It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art. -- David Levithan
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits. -- David Levithan
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? -- David Levithan
I have spent years of my life sitting in my room, creating defenses of cynicism, darkness, and bleakness. Jed's friendship is the skeleton key to my fortress. He disarms me every time. -- David Levithan
We think that time is the only thing that passes, but it also changes our relationship to places. -- David Levithan
And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice. -- David Levithan
We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe. -- David Levithan
I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms. -- David Levithan
Chaste with a chance of inveterate lust. -- David Levithan
Serrated, adj.
And you said, "I'm not sure we can. -- David Levithan
That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there. -- David Levithan
Not everything needs to be said at once. Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. It is enough to start the telling. It's enough to have the beginning and feel like it's a beginning. -- David Levithan
Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics."
There are so many things I wish I hadn't said. -- David Levithan
I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it. -- David Levithan
I know immediately that this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal and the historic are converging. I know people will ask, 'Where were you when you first heard? -- David Levithan
Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts. -- David Levithan
But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing. -- David Levithan
But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed -- David Levithan
Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor. -- David Levithan
I don't know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash's demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot. -- David Levithan
I measure the moment
in the heartbeats I skip -- David Levithan
Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed. -- David Levithan
Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was. -- David Levithan
I know he's been looking forward to this
and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard. -- David Levithan
If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well. -- David Levithan
Indelible, adj.
That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever. -- David Levithan
If I woke up in a different body every day
if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow
would you still love me? -- David Levithan
Now she's lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night -- David Levithan
There's much protest, but it falls on deaf ears. -- David Levithan
Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones. -- David Levithan
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving -- David Levithan
It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn."
"My eyes!" Boomer cried. "My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it! -- David Levithan
Sometimes I wish we could open ourselves up to each other as much as we do to the sky. To the smallness and the enomity. -- David Levithan
Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already. -- David Levithan
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it. -- David Levithan
I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. -- David Levithan
I love you," she says.
"I love you," I say.
And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that.
I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense. -- David Levithan
We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us. -- David Levithan
When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it. -- David Levithan
I have never had anybody talk to me like this.
this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note.
i feel that if my soul could talk it would
talk like this. -- David Levithan
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means. -- David Levithan
All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it. -- David Levithan
Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards. -- David Levithan
Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try. -- David Levithan
Naps can be devils of disorientation. -- David Levithan
I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to have a future with Rhiannon.
All I'm doing is extending the past by a day. -- David Levithan
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost
the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed. -- David Levithan
No," he finally said. "I don't think you're boring. I think there are times you don't allow yourself to be interesting ... but clearly that can change. -- David Levithan
You want to be single?
I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like you were unattached to anyone, unconnected to anything. I preferred the term singular. As in individual. -- David Levithan
It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me. -- David Levithan
There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain. -- David Levithan
He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down. -- David Levithan
Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world. -- David Levithan
So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it. -- David Levithan
Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other. -- David Levithan
Haul, v.: Yes, love will bend you over, make you strain. That is the burden of having something worth carrying forward. -- David Levithan
But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in. -- David Levithan
At one point they'd repeated everything enough, and I wanted to tell them to stop showing the planes hitting the tower. We didn't need to see it again. And yet I didn't turn it off. Because I was hanging on every minute, wanting to be there when whatever was going to happen next actually happened. -- David Levithan
That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. -- David Levithan
Someday your prince will come," I assure him.
"And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long? -- David Levithan
You say that someday your prince will come. More than anything, you want him to reply, "But what if your prince is right under your nose?" Instead he says, "Well, as long as he's mot one of those deposed princes ... "
You wish he weren't such a prince. You wish he were a frog. -- David Levithan
I'm not Justin. Even if she doesn't know it. -- David Levithan
If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker. -- David Levithan
The only way to deal with the future is to make sure the present is okay. -- David Levithan
And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I've never felt before. A closeness that isn't merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we've only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging. -- David Levithan
I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am. -- David Levithan
Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always. -- David Levithan
anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. -- David Levithan
On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that. I honestly believe that. I think we saw the way humanity works on that day, and while some of it was horrifying, so much of it was good. -- David Levithan
She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist. -- David Levithan
We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good. -- David Levithan
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy. -- David Levithan
Confrontation, n.: You turn away from the truth when asked to face it, while I stare at it too long, until it becomes a blur. -- David Levithan
We are face to face with enormity again, but this time we are going to make it through. It is a moment we can get out of. Together. -- David Levithan
Commonplace, adj.
... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on. -- David Levithan
Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption - the fear - that death equaled silence. -- David Levithan
She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of. -- David Levithan
Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer ( ... ) -- David Levithan
Love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins. -- David Levithan
No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it. -- David Levithan
There is nothing that will add depth to despair like the feeling of deserving it. -- David Levithan
Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too. -- David Levithan
Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie. -- David Levithan
I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me. -- David Levithan
You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say. -- David Levithan
Person after person after person ... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live.
As it is with accidents, so it is with love. -- David Levithan
A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite. -- David Levithan
I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said. -- David Levithan
Abyss, n.
There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us. -- David Levithan
I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last. -- David Levithan
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah -- David Levithan
I am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment -- David Levithan
We roll down the windows and crank the radio - we like the idea of our music spilling out over the whole neighbourhood, becoming part of the air. -- David Levithan
They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone. -- David Levithan
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. -- David Levithan
If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go. -- David Levithan
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine. -- David Levithan
He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable. -- David Levithan
We will get home full of others people shame.
What are we saying is what we did see.
And what did we do?
We acted blind and we moved on.
That is not the gospel. -- David Levithan
And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't. -- David Levithan
In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends. -- David Levithan
Maura: is there anything you want to tell me?
me: yeah. I want to tell you that my third nipple is lactating and my butt cheeks are threatening to unionize. what do you think I should do about it?
maura: I feel you're not telling me something. -- David Levithan
And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened. -- David Levithan
This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life -- David Levithan
metamorphosis, n.:
Love turns us into winged creatures, venturing in ways we never could have conceived in our crawling days. -- David Levithan
The heart is a treacherous beast, but it means well. -- David Levithan
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. -- David Levithan
If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently. -- David Levithan
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. -- David Levithan
The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe
in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. -- David Levithan
They'd been friends for a little while but they'd never talked about how they felt. -- David Levithan
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Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it. -- David Levithan
I loved you for everything. -- David Levithan
In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. -- David Levithan
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her. -- David Levithan
You know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon? -- David Levithan
She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her. -- David Levithan
Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable. -- David Levithan
I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself," you threatened.
"We're not going to leave you alone," I said.
But we had to, eventually.
After all, people are always separable. -- David Levithan
And i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met. -- David Levithan
Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself? -- David Levithan
They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all. -- David Levithan
For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved. -- David Levithan
We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune. -- David Levithan
I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise. -- David Levithan
No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all. -- David Levithan
But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that all.'
'You really think love needs to have a future?'
'Absolutely. -- David Levithan
You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
- Tiny Cooper -- David Levithan
Incandesce, v.: You are the light of the far-off town, the promise on the dark path. -- David Levithan
I wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder. -- David Levithan
With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it. -- David Levithan
I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him. -- David Levithan
You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night. -- David Levithan
You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail. -- David Levithan
All you really need to do is let the comic book geeks know and the rest of the world will follow. -- David Levithan
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing -- David Levithan
If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions. -- David Levithan
Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. -- David Levithan
This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2. -- David Levithan
When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us. -- David Levithan
We have fallen through the surface and are deep in the trenches of need -- David Levithan
It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this? -- David Levithan
It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly thought ... it was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and the only thing this sound could make me think of was you. -- David Levithan
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. -- David Levithan
I have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade. -- David Levithan
How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less? -- David Levithan
And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person. -- David Levithan
We're going to get through this. Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together. -- David Levithan
Fuck, I loved her then. And 'then' is blurring into 'now'. I'm thinking 'why not?' I'm thinking 'we're still the same people. -- David Levithan
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? -- David Levithan
Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there. -- David Levithan
Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? -- David Levithan
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory.
It is not a moment.
It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment. -- David Levithan
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board. -- David Levithan
The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater. -- David Levithan
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears -- David Levithan
People say you should wait to be with someone you love, but I think it's more important to be with someone you like. -- David Levithan
Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him. -- David Levithan
I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something. -- David Levithan
You don't know, but I'm noticing. -- David Levithan
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid. -- David Levithan
The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms. -- David Levithan
It's good to share a life - and it's good to share minutes and hours, too, Danny thinks. With a wife. With a husband. With a boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend. With a fling. With a brother. -- David Levithan
If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? -- David Levithan
Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer. -- David Levithan
This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else - you see it, but they don't. They talk to you, but you can't talk back to them. -- David Levithan
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. -- David Levithan
Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon. -- David Levithan
She must be in eighth grade
maybe seventh. She's old enough to wear make-up, but she hasn't figured out yet how to wear it well. -- David Levithan
I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story but passing by too quickly to notice or understand -- David Levithan
My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside. -- David Levithan
It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit."
"It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis. -- David Levithan
He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things. -- David Levithan
To love
to fall
is not a question. To touch
to kiss
to speak
those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies. -- David Levithan
Nobody ever took my picture. They didn't want to. Or I wouldn't let them.
You were the only exception. -- David Levithan
Answerless questions can destroy. Move on. - A -- David Levithan
There are two kinds of drivers, he thinks: those who see the world around the road, and those who fixate on the road itself. We'll end up where we want to be. We always do. -- David Levithan
Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself. -- David Levithan
Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it. -- David Levithan
When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways. -- David Levithan
A genuine, tee-hee-hee giggle ... it's like he's being tickled by life -- David Levithan
He pulls me into a hug again, and we stay like that for a little while, to the point that it's almost like we're slow dancing. We just sway on the same spot as time beats out an empty tune. -- David Levithan
The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard. -- David Levithan
Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. -- David Levithan
I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible. -- David Levithan
I wondered if this was how you'd felt.
I wondered if I was making myself feel how you'd felt.
I knew it wasn't a choice. It was just what my mind was doing.
Although I could've been fighting it more. -- David Levithan
Encroach, v.
The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing. -- David Levithan
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. -- David Levithan
In fact, the people who live in this town exist - millions of them. They just don't happen to all live in the same town. -- David Levithan
It's hard being in the body of someone you don't like, because you still have to respect it. -- David Levithan
Me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it. -- David Levithan
You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from. -- David Levithan
Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath. -- David Levithan
He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter. -- David Levithan
What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it -- David Levithan
I don't believe a word you're saying... but say it again. -- David Levithan
There were only two options - something was wrong with everyone else, or something was wrong with me. Because either they were tricking themselves into thinking there was a tomorrow together, or I was the only person who was leaving. -- David Levithan
When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else. -- David Levithan
The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud. -- David Levithan
Placid, adj.
Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. -- David Levithan
But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead. -- David Levithan
All this history ... ,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. -- David Levithan
I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave. -- David Levithan
I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed. -- David Levithan
Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls. -- David Levithan
I am starting to realize what this means, and how sad it would be.
I am already feeling some of the sadness now, and it isn't even happening. -- David Levithan
There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace. -- David Levithan
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you. -- David Levithan
Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility. -- David Levithan
Make more than dust. -- David Levithan
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis. -- David Levithan
I love books about freaks, because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together? -- David Levithan
notice how fickle things can be
now I'm better, now I'm worse
nowhere is it written how to deal with this -- David Levithan
Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. -- David Levithan
There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else. -- David Levithan
His train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time. -- David Levithan
In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. -- David Levithan
I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much. -- David Levithan
Eyes bloodshot, I want to say. Eating a lot of Cheetos. Staring into space. Eating more
Cheetos. It must be love. What else could it possibly be? -- David Levithan
He hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give. -- David Levithan
Boundbydad: and, so you meanwhile, no bid saturday night plans? more quality time with mom?
grayscale: you, my dear, are my saturday night plans.
boundbydad: i'm honored. -- David Levithan
Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten - well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed -- David Levithan
My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality. -- David Levithan
So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed-"
"things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess. -- David Levithan
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption. -- David Levithan
How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words written down, not the paper. -- David Levithan
Underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. -- David Levithan
It's when you walk around the apartment in my boxers when you don't know I'm awake. And then that grin, when you do know I'm awake. You spend so much time in the morning making sure every hair is in place. But I have to tell you: I like it most like this, haphazard, sleep-strewn, disarrayed. -- David Levithan
It's always something we have to negotiate - the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. -- David Levithan
Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows. -- David Levithan
But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind? -- David Levithan
So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same. -- David Levithan
Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet. -- David Levithan
Here were shadows on the window blinds of guests assembling, and there a group of pretty girls, hooded and Ugg-booted and all chattering at once, tripping off lightly to some near neighbor's house where woe would befall the single guy who saw them enter - they were artful witches, and they knew it. -- David Levithan
I don't know what good I could do."
"None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook. -- David Levithan
Since I'm not part of it yet, I see it: how a group of people can become a blizzard, how all the tie spent buying and picking out exactly the right clothes doesn't mean shit now because nobody is looking at clothes or poses. -- David Levithan
Part of the problem is words. The fact that there are separate words for HE and SHE, HIM and HER. I've never thought about it before, how divisive this is. Like maybe if there was just one pronoun for all of us, we wouldn't get so caught on that difference. -- David Levithan
The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness. -- David Levithan
Candid, adj.
"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex". -- David Levithan
I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge. -- David Levithan
Under the table, I crossed my legs so hard it hurt. I was using all the strength it would take to run away, only to stay still. -- David Levithan
I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. -- David Levithan
I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. -- David Levithan
We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else. -- David Levithan
We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life.
You will miss the taste of Froot Loops.
You will miss the sound of traffic.
You will miss your back against his.
You will miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things. -- David Levithan
She still dotted her i's with full circles and felt genuinely thankful for every sunny day. I believed more in dark clouds, in sharp dots, in needing proof in order to feel trust. -- David Levithan
Me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe.
mom: ...
me: i'm kidding about the axe part. -- David Levithan
I am worried we've run out of words, and am hoping she is just saving them for later. -- David Levithan
And when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help. -- David Levithan
Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor. -- David Levithan
Back to the present.
I found you in my locker the next morning.
Not you.
A photograph.
But for a moment, it felt like finding a body,
It felt like finding
what you I needed
to be
found. -- David Levithan
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. -- David Levithan
I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up. -- David Levithan
It's been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.
It is all such a blessing - in the beginning, and the end, and the during. -- David Levithan
We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought. -- David Levithan
This was how we'd always played.
You were Cinderella, I was a mouse.
You were Alice, I was the Hatter.
You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. -- David Levithan
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? -- David Levithan
Elijah's problem, in Danny's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a living. Danny's problem, in Elijah's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a life. -- David Levithan
And at Dack's party- it was like this. Like you had all the time in the world, and you wanted us to have it together. I loved that. It was like- well, it was like you'd climbed up that tree and found me there at the top. And we had that together. -- David Levithan
Fallible, adj.
I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself. -- David Levithan
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion. -- David Levithan
There's an electricity in his eyes. Power. Light. -- David Levithan
Happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time -- David Levithan
Still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live? -- David Levithan
These books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. -- David Levithan
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. -- David Levithan
I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first. -- David Levithan
It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet. -- David Levithan
The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down. -- David Levithan
I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me. -- David Levithan
I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic. -- David Levithan
've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is. -- David Levithan
Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so
fleeting -- David Levithan
The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed. -- David Levithan
When one of my teammates botches a shot, the coach tells him to stop being a girl. I wish I could tell him that I was a girl two days ago, and two days before that. Nothing is different. A shot is a shot. -- David Levithan
Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it. -- David Levithan
Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before
the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit. -- David Levithan
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. -- David Levithan
Eventually, we all must go to sleep. This is our first intimation that the body always wins. No matter how hapywe are, no matter ow much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable. You might be able to dodge it for one giddy cycle, but the body's need will always return. -- David Levithan
People fall hard for the notion of falling, and saying you want no part of it will only get you sent to the loony bin. -- David Levithan
I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it on you. -- David Levithan
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. -- David Levithan
Yes, I pray to my Big Lesbian God Who Doesn't Really Exist. -- David Levithan
The air feels cleaner because when the world is below us, we allow ourselves to breathe fully. -- David Levithan
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. -- David Levithan
The train comes. If you stay on the tracks, you die. If you jump off the bridge, you die,
There's always a train coming eventually. -- David Levithan
Today was awkward, but I think that's because it feels like a very awkward time. It isn't about you, and it isn't
about love. It's about everything crashing together at once. -- David Levithan
I could have been hanging out with my friends, but most of them were hanging out with their families or their Wiis. (Wiis? Wiii? What is the plural?) -- David Levithan
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. -- David Levithan
Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart ... -- David Levithan
This Santa's beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasn't fucking around. -- David Levithan
But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go. -- David Levithan
Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started. -- David Levithan
Simon: that's disgusting!
me: what's disgusting?
simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates. -- David Levithan
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. -- David Levithan
I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither. -- David Levithan
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first. -- David Levithan
With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong. -- David Levithan
Why are there so many people out here?' Boomer asked as we bobbed and weaved roughly forward.
'Christmas shopping.' I explained.
'Already? Isn't it early to returning things?'
I really had no sense of how his mind worked. -- David Levithan
Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic. -- David Levithan
He is tired, but he's free. He is living, because he's in motion. -- David Levithan
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. -- David Levithan
But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better. -- David Levithan
I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust. -- David Levithan
I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. -- David Levithan
But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find. -- David Levithan
Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. -- David Levithan
I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. -- David Levithan
I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else. -- David Levithan
I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me. -- David Levithan
How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to. -- David Levithan
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer. -- David Levithan
We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment. -- David Levithan
Some people think that mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something you have choice over. -- David Levithan
After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. -- David Levithan
And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt. -- David Levithan
I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own? -- David Levithan
Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger. -- David Levithan
As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter.
You up? he asks.
And the reply comes instantly:
For anything. -- David Levithan
It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together. -- David Levithan
We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him. -- David Levithan
Fraught, adj.
Does every "I love you" deserve an "I love you too"? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is "No," what do we do? -- David Levithan
Exacerbate, v.
I believe your exact words were: You're getting too emotional. -- David Levithan
You will rip yourself to shreds to prove that I am worth loving.
you will not hear the chorus of everyone I've let down -- David Levithan
What if Katie Couric had turned to me and said, "The love of your life is here in this crowd"? Would I have believed her? Would it have even been possible, if we'd met then? -- David Levithan
We are such wonderful idiots, Peter thinks. -- David Levithan
If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"
I meant a pre-existing song
"What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.") -- David Levithan
My body would cry
from all it felt
and all it couldn't. -- David Levithan
If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions. -- David Levithan
How did my world get so small? -- David Levithan
Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. -- David Levithan
Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation. -- David Levithan
I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does. -- David Levithan
We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed. -- David Levithan
If she lets go, it's all over. If I let go, it's all over. And because she is holding on so tight, I hold on so tight. -- David Levithan
I wanted to ask her, What does a stranger feel like? Not to be snarky or sarcastic. Because I really wanted to know if there was a difference,vif there was a way to become truly knowable, if there wasn't always something keeping you a stranger, even to the people you weren't strange to at all. -- David Levithan
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. -- David Levithan
Elliptical, adj.
The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen. -- David Levithan
It is a terrible thing to not feel missed. -- David Levithan
He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first. -- David Levithan
I don't know where I am, Evan."
"I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just ... everywhere."
"I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater."
"I need a gun."
"Evan? I need- -- David Levithan
But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it. -- David Levithan
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth. -- David Levithan
He's just a friend, we'd argue. But if he was just a friend, why was he hidden, why were we so upset to have him discovered? -- David Levithan
It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing. -- David Levithan
Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on? -- David Levithan
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. -- David Levithan
We never figured out whether I need to be more reassuring or if he just needs reassurance too much. We both try to readjust our settings to make it okay -- David Levithan
There was nothing very cheerful about the cold, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness that the cleverest summer air and brightest summer sun couldn't have compared with. Everyone was in this together. -- David Levithan
It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you. -- David Levithan
Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know.
Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine. -- David Levithan
Love is so painful, how could you wish it on anybody? -- David Levithan
I know people always talk about living in the middle of nowhere - there's always another place (some city, some foreign country) they'd rather be. But it's moments like this that I feel like I live in the middle of somewhere. My somewhere. -- David Levithan
These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously. -- David Levithan
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. -- David Levithan
Fate has a strange way of making plans. -- David Levithan
He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar
through the clouds, while I often feel
like the cloud itself. -- David Levithan
Thoughts can follow you anywhere. -- David Levithan
I wanted my spring awakening, even if it was coming a season late.
I wanted summer lovin' that would happen so fast.
I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying. -- David Levithan
You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly. -- David Levithan
We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on. -- David Levithan
Dispel, v.
It was the way you said, "I have something to tell you." I could feel the magic drain from the room. -- David Levithan
That's okay," you told me. "I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary. -- David Levithan
It is not desire.
Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him
constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment,
and I want the moments to go on forever. -- David Levithan
I mean, being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them ... but it can also mean you're trapped. -- David Levithan
Bianca: There's a difference between like and love. I like my Sketchers. But I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity: But I love my Sketchers.
Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack. -- David Levithan
But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of love. -- David Levithan
Jed
talks about the foreseeable future and
how little there is that we can foresee. -- David Levithan
Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. -- David Levithan
The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters. -- David Levithan
There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced -- David Levithan
I could never be with someone who wasn't excited by rainstorms -- David Levithan
You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period. -- David Levithan
There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined. -- David Levithan
Kids don't give a shit about clipboards. -- David Levithan
A sound waiting to be a word. -- David Levithan
I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want. -- David Levithan
I have to resort to email, and email is not enough. I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. Hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. -- David Levithan
It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place. -- David Levithan
Dissonance, n.
Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it. -- David Levithan
jaded, adj.
In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything. -- David Levithan
Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity. -- David Levithan
She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task. -- David Levithan
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. -- David Levithan
I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility. -- David Levithan
The conclusion I reach: I don't like my body very much, but I'm not sure I'd like anyone else's body any better. They're all strange when you look at them for too long. -- David Levithan
It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen. -- David Levithan
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own. -- David Levithan
No treaty but trenches
all quiet
years to years
home in no man's land. -- David Levithan
The tune here is an old-fashioned town-crowd melody
kind of like how the people from the town in The Music Man might sound if Harold Hill had brought an infant homosexual to town instead of wind instruments. -- David Levithan
You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet.
That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future. -- David Levithan
Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness. -- David Levithan
Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting.
Not Tiny Cooper.
He comes into the world singing. -- David Levithan
Even though I was turned on and warm and with him ... I thought to myself, I'm missing something. -- David Levithan
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin. -- David Levithan
He was this constant, living reminder of my biggest mistake. -- David Levithan
Luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something. -- David Levithan
But I'll wait for next time. Because I know there will be a next time. I was looking forward to next time the minute I met her. Throughout the night, I've been looking forward to next time, and the time after that, and the time after that. I know this is something. -- David Levithan
It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything. -- David Levithan
Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice. -- David Levithan
From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death. -- David Levithan
I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. -- David Levithan
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten. -- David Levithan
Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe. -- David Levithan
But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. -- David Levithan
Wow, this puts the sweet in Sweet Jesus. -- David Levithan
As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for?
"I loved you from that moment on," I say.
"I loved you from that moment on," you agree. -- David Levithan
I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it's possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me. -- David Levithan
We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You're the playwright. You're the composer. -- David Levithan
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. -- David Levithan
This is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths. -- David Levithan
I have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. -- David Levithan
So much happiness can only make me sad. -- David Levithan
If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there. -- David Levithan
It is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck. -- David Levithan
The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying. -- David Levithan
Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world. -- David Levithan
The phrase rush to judgement is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don't have have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is easy to reach for. -- David Levithan
(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
-David Levithan (Every Day) -- David Levithan
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health. -- David Levithan
We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts ... and not a single one can help us. I think, What's the point of all magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. -- David Levithan
If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. -- David Levithan
I'm insane.
But I tell them this.
I tell them to consider blessings.
The thing about blessings is that they aren't just delivered to you.
There is some mystery to their appearance, but once they're in your reach,
you have to do something for them. -- David Levithan
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. -- David Levithan
Only adj.
thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you. -- David Levithan
Here," she said. "This is for you."
"I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and
"
"Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts. -- David Levithan
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress. -- David Levithan
You'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful. -- David Levithan
And here we are, so different from who we were on September 10th. And also different from who we were on the 11th. And the 12th. And yesterday. Sometimes you see the before/after. And sometimes it's as soft as saying hello. -- David Levithan
Neil doesn't really think Peter is cheating on him. He doesn't think Peter would ever cheat on him. That's not what this is about. It's about Neil's fear that Peter will want to cheat on him, that he will someday realize there's someone better out there. -- David Levithan
It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you. -- David Levithan
If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see.
But now it's awkward. -- David Levithan
If you want to be loved, be lovable. It's a good place to start. -- David Levithan
There are so many words in our language; we get to know so few of them. -- David Levithan
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale. -- David Levithan
When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel. -- David Levithan
I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing. -- David Levithan
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it. -- David Levithan
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home -- David Levithan
Seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope -- David Levithan
But there are moments - either in your own life or the life of the world around you - when an event looks you right in the eye and says: This is important. What are you going to do? -- David Levithan
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. -- David Levithan
In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live? -- David Levithan
But the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no
I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty. -- David Levithan
Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. -- David Levithan
I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after. -- David Levithan
Basis, n.: There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're inlove with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. -- David Levithan
I am trying to make an emotional point. I don't expect you to understand me on that level - you are but a romantic sapling. I am a sequoia, so you'd be well advised to listen to what I have to say. -- David Levithan
I truly don't understand any of this,' I confessed.
She stayed standing, facing me.
'I wish I could help you there,' she told me. 'But I can't. -- David Levithan
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. -- David Levithan
Mostly I was spending time in the Strand, that bastion of titillating erudition. Not so much a bookstore as a collision of 100 different bookstores, with literary wreckage strewn over 18 miles of shelves. -- David Levithan
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.
And then everything falls apart anyway. -- David Levithan
It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait ... -- David Levithan
Plus/minus
Positive/negative
1/0
I can/ I can't
I will/ I won't
You are/You aren't
I said/I thought
I said "I will"/I thought "I can't"
I thought "I can"/I said "You won't -- David Levithan
is where I am destined to live. -- David Levithan
The reward is in the risk. -- David Levithan
Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers. -- David Levithan
Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind.
Nobody at Padua High School fits that description. -- David Levithan
Brown, I say, deep brown. Like coffee without any milk. -- David Levithan
Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be -- David Levithan
None of these people who are talking know Craig or Harry, or even care about who Craig or Harry are. The minute you stop talking about individuals and start talking about a group, your judgment has a flaw in it. -- David Levithan
Let all the dreamers wake the nation. -- David Levithan
I feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can't be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment. -- David Levithan
Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. -- David Levithan
Better, adj. and adv.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better. -- David Levithan
Once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. -- David Levithan
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not. -- David Levithan
His "devoted" is italicized by sarcasm, underlined by hurt. -- David Levithan
It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to. -- David Levithan
I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft? -- David Levithan
Green tea?"
"You can't be serious."
The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't."
"Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass. -- David Levithan
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss. -- David Levithan
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? -- David Levithan
You don't need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens. -- David Levithan
Referring to Bogey's party: A lame excuse for all the idiots in our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless, consumer-driven lives. -- David Levithan
When you love
someone, they become your reason. -- David Levithan
Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself. -- David Levithan
It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close. -- David Levithan
If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable. -- David Levithan
I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing. -- David Levithan
I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye. -- David Levithan
The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way. -- David Levithan
And who am I to blow against the wind? -- David Levithan
People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike. -- David Levithan
I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain. -- David Levithan
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y -- David Levithan
It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for. -- David Levithan
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale
why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster. -- David Levithan
I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things. -- David Levithan
It is too easy to be ignored in this world,
so you've gotta put yourself up front
if you want to be counted, and to count. -- David Levithan
Lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head. -- David Levithan
Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -- David Levithan
Need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that. -- David Levithan
I have always found peace among books. -- David Levithan
The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance. -- David Levithan
Epithet, n.
I think the worst you ever called me was a "cunt rag."
"You mean I'm a tampon?" I asked. "I'm a tampon for not letting you drive?"
I laughed. You didn't. At least, not until you sobered up. -- David Levithan
It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. -- David Levithan
Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home. -- David Levithan
Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. -- David Levithan
What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done? -- David Levithan
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly -- David Levithan
She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes. -- David Levithan
when I look out a window
I wish for you on the other side
even if you're not there
I can see you in the clouds -- David Levithan
I get lost in ifs. They are always there if if if if and I should only be able to tune in to them if I'm on the right
frequency. But that's the thing about me: The frequencies don't divide. -- David Levithan
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. -- David Levithan
Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to
the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game. -- David Levithan
I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. -- David Levithan
We've all done this - created our mix-and-match families, our homemade safety nets. -- David Levithan
The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age. -- David Levithan
I'm not talking what you preach
there is no practicing here.
I am talking living what you preach.
And to do that, you gotta preach what you live.
I know what I'm here for
And I know what the Lord is here for.
The gospel. I will live and die by the Gospel. -- David Levithan
I find it hard to look at her. I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl
is a central truth. -- David Levithan
I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell. -- David Levithan
And love. I am here because of love. -- David Levithan
Tiny: did someone die?
me: yeah, i did.
he smiles again at that.
tiny: well, then ... welcome to the afterlife. -- David Levithan
The only thing I am allowed, the only thing I am given, is myself. It is enough, but only barely. -- David Levithan
Rest, v. and n.
Rest with me for the rest of this.
That's it. Come closer.
We're here. -- David Levithan
It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me. -- David Levithan
As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body. -- David Levithan
Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it. -- David Levithan
You can't know what it is like for us now
you will always be one step behind.
Be thankful for that.
You can't know what it was like for us then
you will always be one step ahead.
Be thankful for that, too. -- David Levithan
We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay. -- David Levithan
Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know? -- David Levithan
You never asked what my anthem was. But that's okay, because I still don't know what I'd answer. -- David Levithan
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours. -- David Levithan
I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint. -- David Levithan
New can be an emotion. -- David Levithan
I think that this might be the easiest way to live - just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things, -- David Levithan
Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful. You've made it to another day. -- David Levithan
I pressed my head into the pillow and I screamed.
Pure sound. No words. But it all came out as your name. -- David Levithan
If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did. -- David Levithan
It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad. -- David Levithan
But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment. -- David Levithan
He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile. -- David Levithan
To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily. -- David Levithan
Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first. -- David Levithan
How to Be Alone
Remember that at any given moment
There are a thousand things
You can love -- David Levithan
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other. -- David Levithan
You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan) -- David Levithan
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant. -- David Levithan
Sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do. -- David Levithan
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy. -- David Levithan
But now it's the museum backdrop for the exhibition of grief. -- David Levithan
Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. -- David Levithan