David Levithan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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