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Us Quotes by David Levithan
- We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said…
- Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was…
- I want this world small enough for the two of us I want you to think of me that way I want this world to…
- The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as…
- We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we…
- After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench…
- it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us…
- We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we…
- We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make…
- What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
- Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
- There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it…
- When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right…
- The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
- 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…
- 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…
- The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.
- Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
- 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…
- 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…
More Us Quotes
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- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino