David Levithan: Trending quotes

“I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”

Source: Every Day

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

Source: Every Day

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

“I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.”

“I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.”

Source: Every Day

“It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper”

Source: Every Day

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

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The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes.
Accept this. We must accept this.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary