David Levithan Quotes

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Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

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The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

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Why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

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Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

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

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As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? I loved you from that moment on, I say. I loved you from that moment on, you agree.

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I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

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I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

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Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

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Next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.

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I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

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Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

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Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

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

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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

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Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

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I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

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This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind's eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

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Dispel, v. It was the way you said, I have something to tell you. I could feel the magic drain from the room.

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You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

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The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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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.

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Luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.

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But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

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Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

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And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.

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Tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

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People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

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