David Levithan Quotes

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• There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come…
• 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 need a reason…
• And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my…
• I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
• Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had…
• I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in…
• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
• You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am…
• It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.
• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact…
• willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started
• this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.
• It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
• This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might…
• I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
• Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.
• I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I…
• Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen…
• That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in…
• That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

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