David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 10)

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

“Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.”

“All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”

“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”

“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

“adj.
It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question:
“What are you thinking?”
It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”

“I know
the odds are all against me
and I know
you might not feel this way too
but I know
I would rather die trying
to know
if I could mean something to you”

“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?”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“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.”

“I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.”

“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”