David Levithan - Life Quotes

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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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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

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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 am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

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I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism — if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

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

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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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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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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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There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

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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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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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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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People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

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I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

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There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

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It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

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How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

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In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

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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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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

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