David Levithan Quotes

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I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

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I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

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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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Having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

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To love—to fall—is not a question. To touch—to kiss—to speak—those are questions.

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I've found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

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Gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

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I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

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You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

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Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

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I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

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I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

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