David Levithan Quotes

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“But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.”

“it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

“Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.”

“Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day”

“I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

“I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“That strange, twisted, torn love.

That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.”

“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.”

“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”

“I will be the one to leave you.”

“i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can’t be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.”

“Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

“Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.”

“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”

“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”

“Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.”

“i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.”

“I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.”

“Here," she said. "This is for you."
"I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--"
"Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.”

“But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.”

“I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”

“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”

“That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?”

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

“She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.”

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”

“I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa)”

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

“I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.”

“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”

“I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”

“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”

“I text tiny a minute later.

MADE NEW GAY FRIEND.

And he texts back

PROGRESS!!!”

“You are so close, and I can’t reach you.”

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

“Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses… unless you prefer to die.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“fraught, adj.

Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?”

“Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York”

“Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.”

“me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.”
-Will Grayson (pg. 66)”

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

“What i want is for what i want to actually matter.”

“You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.”

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

“He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar
through the clouds, while I often feel
like the cloud itself.”

“Fate has a strange way of making plans.”