David Levithan: Trending quotes

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't
see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”

“How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”

“i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

“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.”

“The secret to living long is to have something to live for.”

“Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.”

“That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

“Its a fine line between love and stalking.”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

“I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”