David Levithan Quotes

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It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

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I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

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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.

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Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

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This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

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Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

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There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

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It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait...

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I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

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I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

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

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If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

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Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

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What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

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I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

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Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

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Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

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There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

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