David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 7)

“I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.”

“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”

“Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.”

“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

“Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.”

“When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”

“Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”

“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”

“When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.”

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

“… because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.”

“With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

“it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.”

“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”