David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 17)

“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.”

“Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.”

“And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God…”

“I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.”

“Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.”

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

“The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”

“Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.”

“She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.”

“I guess it's a choice we make," she said.

"What's a choice?" I asked.

And she said, "How much of the world we let in.”

“I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.”

“I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.”

“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.”

“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.”

“This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther”

“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.”

“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.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense”

“Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”