David Levithan citations

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.”

“How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

“The secret to living long is to have something to live for.”

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't
see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”

“Its a fine line between love and stalking.”

“Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”

“A photograph it a souvenir of a memory.
It is not a moment.
It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.”

“That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“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 wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”

“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“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 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.”

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”

“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.”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”

“.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.”

“People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.”

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

“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.”