David Levithan citations

Page 5

“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

“Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”

“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.”

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

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

“When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”

“Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”

“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”

“When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.”

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

“… because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.”

“With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

“it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.”

“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

“There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.”

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”

“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”

“A sound waiting to be a word.”

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"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

“She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”

“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”