David Levithan Quotes

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Hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

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Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

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It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.

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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

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There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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