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“People are always separable.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“I would always wait to take you home.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.”

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap. Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don’t want you to think I forgot.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“Dispel, v.
It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.”

Source: Invisibility

“What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are.”

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
-David Levithan (Every Day)”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
Source: Every Day

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

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. WE make more than dust.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.”