David Levithan: Want

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

“I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.”

“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”

“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

“Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.”

“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”

“I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.”

“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”