David Levithan: Quotes about people (page 2)

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”

“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“People are always separable.”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”

“I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”

“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.”

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”