“This brief transcript of moments, written in the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“There are those moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“ bolster , v . I am very careful whenever I know you’re on the phone with your father. I know you’ll… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“ I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I only have a day to give—so why can’t it be a good one? Why can’t it be a shared one? Why… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“David Levithan lives in the best of times and the worst of times, the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I prayed last night, too,' she said to me, glaring at Mary Catherina's direction. 'I prayed for a good long time to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself togheter. And then everything falls apart anyway.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“ corrode , v . I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“ tenet , n . At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it’s… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons. But the past resists that. It holds… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.” — David Levithan Copy Share
“The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being just her… — David Levithan Copy Share
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I… — David Levithan Copy Share
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be… — David Levithan Copy Share
“Patrick: Is she worth the trouble? Cameron: I thought she was- Patrick: Either she is, or she isn't. So give it a shot, or… — David Levithan Copy Share
“We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and… — David Levithan Copy Share
maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure… — David Levithan Copy Share
“i nod to the other will grayson, up onstage. he nods to me. we have something between us, him and me. but the truth?… — David Levithan Copy Share
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… — David Levithan Copy Share
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… — David Levithan Copy Share
“Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.” — David Levithan Copy Share
“ misgivings , n . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss,"… — David Levithan Copy Share
“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.” — David Levithan Copy Share