David Levithan Quotes

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“If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.”

“You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.”

“You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”

“Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”

“Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”

“There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.”

“only adj.

thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.”

“When I say,, I don't mean,. I don't mean,. I don't mean,.
I want us to go back down to that root.
I want you to be the one who loves me.
I want to be the one who loves you.”

“Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.”

“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

“Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.”

“All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”

“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”

“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

“It is not desire.
Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him
constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment,
and I want the moments to go on forever.”

“But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it.”

“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

“adj.
It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question:
“What are you thinking?”
It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”

“I know
the odds are all against me
and I know
you might not feel this way too
but I know
I would rather die trying
to know
if I could mean something to you”

“why won't they
leave me
alone?
don't they
realize I
have a
tinder heart
and a
paper body
and that
any spark
will turn me
straight to ash?”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.”

“I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.”

“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”

“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”

“Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

“Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.”

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”

“The world, right now, is only us.”

“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

“I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”

“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”

“dissonance, n.

Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.”

“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”