David Levithan
43 quotes
Biography
"I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me."
"It was a mistake,"you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you."
"If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
"We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust."
"This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be."
"I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf."
"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
"It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love."
"It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.It just has to be."
"Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not."
"misgivings, n.Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss,"you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more."
"The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing"
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
"abyss, n.There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us."
"The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations."
"libidinous, adj.I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor."
"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
"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."
"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"
"It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."
"breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word."
"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."
"Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be."
"Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces."[...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."