David Levithan Quotes

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School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

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Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

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Me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.

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For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

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When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.

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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

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We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

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It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

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Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

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It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

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And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

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I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

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I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

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There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

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She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

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You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

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And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

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Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

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I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

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