David Levithan citations

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“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.”

“I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.”

“I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.”

“It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.”

“I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.”

“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.”

“.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”

“Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.”

“You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper”

“Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.”

“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.”

“.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes.
Accept this. We must accept this.”

“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.”

“But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”

“underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.”

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

“We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.”

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”

“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”

“me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset?
gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.”

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.”

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

“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”

“that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?”

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

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”