David Levithan Quotes

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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

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And when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

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And I find myself saying, It wasn't really about her. And finding it's true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

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After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

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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.

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Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

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You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

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We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: 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.

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Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

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Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

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The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

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Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

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It is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.

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

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Underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

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It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

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Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

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There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

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There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

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You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

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Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

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