David Levithan Quotes

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“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.”

“But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”

“Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.”

“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.”

“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”

“I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.”

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”

“i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.”

“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”

“sometimes it’s okay to cheat on things - but don’t ever cheat on people. because once you start, it’s very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.”

“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

“I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.”

“I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”

“You think you know your possibilities.
Then other people come into your life
and suddenly there are so many more.”

“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

“You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.”

“But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.”

“3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.”

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”