David Levithan Quotes

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“what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it”

“This is the trap of having something to live for:
Everything else seems lifeless.”

“There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.”

“.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotional.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.”

“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.”

“This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.”

“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.”

“I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.”

“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

“There is always something new to learn about the person you love.”