David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 4)

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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“.

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“.

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.”

“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.”