David Levithan Quotes

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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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I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

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I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.

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What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

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I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

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Barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

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

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You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

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

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Seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

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There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.

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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

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I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.

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The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

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You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

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

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There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

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

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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.

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I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really, I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

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He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

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A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.

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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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