David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 14)

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”

“And who am I to blow against the wind?”

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you.
We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too.
For you, this translate into confidence. But me?
All I can feel is doubt.”

“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

“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.”

“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!”

“You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"

Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes."

"Not Coffee it is, then."

"Yes, Not Coffee.”

“Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.”

“I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.”

“The words that matter always stay.”

“All I get is tomorrow.”

“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.”

“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.”