David Levithan Quotes

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I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

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I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

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

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I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

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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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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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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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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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I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

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The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

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You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change, the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

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There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale— why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

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Stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

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I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

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I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

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He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.

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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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