David Levithan: Trending quotes (page 8)

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”

“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”

“A sound waiting to be a word.”

“.

"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

“She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”

“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”

“I measure the moment
in the heartbeats I skip”

“So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.”

“If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.”

“Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.”

“You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.”

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

“I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”