David Levithan citations

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“Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.”

“You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.”

“What I learned

The well-documented difference
Between alone and lonely
The comfort of knowing”

“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”

“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.”

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

“I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

“After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.”

“Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.”

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

“This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.”

“elliptical, adj.
The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.”

“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”

“Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”

“seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope”

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

“We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.”

“I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”

“And who am I to blow against the wind?”

“I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.”

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you.
We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too.
For you, this translate into confidence. But me?
All I can feel is doubt.”

“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”