David Levithan, Every Day Quotes

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?I can't tell.The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

What’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?

It’s okay, ” I tell her.“It is okay to be happy