David Levithan, How They Met, And Other Stories Quotes

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

That's what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.

I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.