David Levithan Quotes

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Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

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The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

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You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change, the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

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There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

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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.

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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

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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 it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

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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.

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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

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I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

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He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.

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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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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 sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

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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.

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

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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?

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Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

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Dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

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It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

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I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

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I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism — if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

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There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

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