David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

“Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.”

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”

“The world, right now, is only us.”

“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

“I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”

“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”

“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.”

“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“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.”

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”