David Levithan citations

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“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”

“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

“tiny: did someone die?
me: yeah, i did.
he smiles again at that.
tiny: well, then… welcome to the afterlife.”

“If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.”

“Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.”

“It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.”

“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

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

“I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

“Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies…”

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”

“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.”

“sup? i'm working. on what? my suicide note. i can't figure out how to end it. lol”

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.

I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good…. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?”

“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 know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.”

“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”

“I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.”

“Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.”

“And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God…”

“I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.”

“Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.”

“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.”

“The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”

“Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.”

“She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.”

“I guess it's a choice we make," she said.

"What's a choice?" I asked.

And she said, "How much of the world we let in.”