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Thinking Quotes by David Levithan

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Levithan celebrates breaking out of neat boxes and being proud of a fluid identity. He compares each moment to a song, reminding us that life moves from one melody to the next. Even after hardship, he finds gratitude in the people who stay beside us.

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The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

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But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

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...i think of friendship in terms of love...

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love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

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“living life instead of just thinking about it.”

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This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

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I think they have compatible silences.

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“I was still thinking he might come after me. Even after he left.”

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And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of…

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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…

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You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or…

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“Why was I thinking about this? Oh, yes—the roses. Something to keep. Something gone.”

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He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often…

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willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

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

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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live…

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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I…

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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.…

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The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us…

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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I…

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A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have…

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We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the…

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And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and…

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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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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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isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if…

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“There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are…

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You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I…

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And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in…

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We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless…

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And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold…

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you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

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He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s…

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It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

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I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

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scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

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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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I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least…

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“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.”

“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…

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You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be…

“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…

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

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…

“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.”