David Levithan Quotes

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• If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself…
• Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes,…
• Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.
• I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go…
• It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my…
• I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken…
• I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.
• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at…
• This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things-…
• Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
• I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests,…
• stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like…
• What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time.…
• After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.
• For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
• I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
• ...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings.…
• Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across…

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