David Levithan Quotes

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• So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that…
• Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.
• I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I…
• When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
• This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.
• I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
• I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever…
• That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't…
• If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous…
• The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection…
• I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.
• In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
• If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
• A sound waiting to be a word.
• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we…
• I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to…
• We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none…
• It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role…
• Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go…

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