David Levithan - Love Quotes

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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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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

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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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People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

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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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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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And when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

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The world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

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I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

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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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It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

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I want to take back at least half of the I love you s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones.

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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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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 know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

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I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

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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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When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

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And suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn't want you to stop. I didn't mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn't mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

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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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When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

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Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

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And I find myself saying, It wasn't really about her. And finding it's true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

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