David Levithan Quotes

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• It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
• Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
• I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
• Fate has a strange way of making plans.
• It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.
• He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I…
• There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling…
• fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to…
• Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
• My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
• You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
• I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
• How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
• I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to…
• i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.
• I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd…
• But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible.…
• It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did…
• Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our…
• The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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