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Stills Quotes by David Levithan

29 Stills quotes by David Levithan

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David Levithan’s take on stillness arrives in 29 vivid fragments, each a small pause in his usually kinetic voice. The collection feels like a gentle hush after a bustling chapter, encouraging you to sense the quiet corners where thoughts settle and feelings surface.

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This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

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Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

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placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment…

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This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in…

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We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of…

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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

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Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found,…

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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't…

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The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can…

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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together.…

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I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow…

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Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing…

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

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You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I…

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exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I…

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The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence…

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There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where…

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The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found…

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What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks.…

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I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The…

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detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

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I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in…

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My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we…

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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to…

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Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to…

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With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were…

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“We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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