David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 5)

“We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.”

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”

“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”

“me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset?
gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.”

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.”

“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”

“that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?”

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

“I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.”

“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”

“andAt the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.”

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”

“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”

“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try”