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Time Quotes by David Levithan

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A night becomes a song, and each moment feels like a melody that can change. Levithan says the present is simple compared to a tangled past and future, and he reminds us there are a thousand things we can love right now. He also notes that friends are for sharing time, not just spending it.

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“We are the time. We are the breathing. We are the air.”

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“And for that moment, my heart is lifting too fast to be scared of falling.”

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“We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.”

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Love me less, but love me for a long time

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“The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.”

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“We vote every time we make a choice. We vote with our lives.”

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“We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time okay is enough.”

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He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

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“And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way. Some of us applaud. Others look…

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

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“i am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment”

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“That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors.”

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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

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“The brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.”

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“...the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”

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“There’s still a part of her that’s waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.”

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“I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I…

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We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up…

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“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise,…

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There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs,…

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No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when…

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Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If…

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“There was a time before you but I can’t remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced…

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As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be…

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“But once upon a time - that would be our time - a telephone cord seemed like nothing less than a lifeline.…

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“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy…

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“For the past year, Neil has assumed that love was like a liquid pouring into a vessel, and that the longer you…

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You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the…

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“Are you a vegetarian?” I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. “Why?” “Because I have this theory…

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“She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You’re scared, you’re disoriented, and you’re completely…

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“I remembered a time we were going through magazines. There was this one model who looked icy to the touch, in total…

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“I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal…

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“You can’t know what it is like for us now—you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can’t…

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“What is it about the moment you fall in love? haw can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I…

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“ champagne, n. You appear at the foot of the bed with a bottle of champagne, and I have no idea why.…

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“Our lives were short, and we never would have wanted them to be shorter. Sometimes perspective comes far too late. You cannot…

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“ recant , v . I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean…

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“ awhile , adv . I love the vagueness of words that involve time. 'It took him awhile to come back' --…

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“It's an old story," Julia says, leaning back in her chair. "Only for me, it's new. I went to school for industrial…

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“You said before that you were tired. Well, I’m tired, too. Tired of letting everything stay unsaid. We spend all our time…

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“You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly.”

“i nod to the other will grayson, up onstage. he nods to me. we have something between us, him and me. but the truth?…

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did…

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily…

“When you break someone's heart, you also break yours.”

“Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.”

“ misgivings , n . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss,"…

“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.”