Quotes from book

Every Day

“I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

“Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

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

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

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

“Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.”

“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.”

“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
-David Levithan (Every Day)”

“This is the trap of having something to live for:
Everything else seems lifeless.”

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

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

“Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“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.”

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

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

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”

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