Quotes from David Levithan

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

love , n. I'm not even going to try.

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.

libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.

i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

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.

It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

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.

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. All I want is you is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

you'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.