David Levithan Quotes

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“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

“There is certainty in a ring.
The non-ending, the non-beginning.
The ongoing.
The way it holds on to you
not because it's fastened
or stretched or adhered.
It holds on
because it fits.”

“It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn."
"My eyes!" Boomer cried. "My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it!”

“You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"

Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes."

"Not Coffee it is, then."

"Yes, Not Coffee.”

“Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.”

“I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.”

“The words that matter always stay.”

“All I get is tomorrow.”

“Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.”

“Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.”

“It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.”

“Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”

“Neophyte, n.

There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?”

“It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.”

“How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.”

“Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.”

“hurt tends to drown out sorry.”

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

“If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.”

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

“It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.”

“The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”

“Someday your prince will come," I assure him.
"And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?”

“It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me.”

“.

In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.”

“A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.”

“I have become very good at clearing histories.”

“I think they have compatible silences.”

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”

“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

“tiny: did someone die?
me: yeah, i did.
he smiles again at that.
tiny: well, then… welcome to the afterlife.”

“If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.”

“Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.”

“It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.”

“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

“Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies…”

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”

“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

“sup? i'm working. on what? my suicide note. i can't figure out how to end it. lol”

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

I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good…. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?”

“I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.”