David Levithan Quotes

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we…
• Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a…
• This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves,…
• Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent…
• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.
• When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
• Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
• There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to…
• We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your…
• We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more…
• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of…
• You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it…
• ... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?
• no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.
• You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.
• With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet…
• If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.
• There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

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