David Levithan Quotes

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

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

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

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.

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

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

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 strong as the faith we have in them.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

You will always be my always.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

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

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

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 never be able to go on.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.