David Levithan: Want

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“I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.”

David Levithan

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“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.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“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.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“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.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“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.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

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

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

“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.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”

David Levithan

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories