Quotes from David Levithan

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

Our kisses were seismic. When seen by the wrong person, they could destroy us. When shared with the right person, they had the power of confirmation, the force of destiny.

It's a terrible thing to not feel missed.

If happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

I don't want to be anywhere else, with anyone else. I don't want to be anyone else. I just want this, which is what I have.

I guess Poole doesn't like social media. Which is weird, since so many modern megalomaniacs do.

Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should've known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

He is amazed that while there are some people you can see every day and not say a word to, there are other people whom you can see once a year __ or once a decade, or once a life __ and say anything.

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. That is, she wants Justin to see it. And it's there, just out of my reach. A sound waiting to be a word.

Maybe it's because nothing ever tastes the same as it did when you were ten.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel -A

But this is the real thing, the hug that let's you feel held.

Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.

Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

No existe nada más doloroso que contemplar a alguien cuando pierde la confianza en ti. En especial, si se trata de tu madre.

If you're used to people being shitty, it's hard to accept niceness. Your instinct is to fuck it up. And run the hell away.

Tomorrow', she says, a little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

We are graced, and we are together, and the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are making it through.

Don't mistake evil for power. That's a bad mistake we all make. Thinking that it takes more strength to break the rules of human decency than to follow them, and therefore if we follow them, we have to be the weaker ones. Bullshit.

But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They becomes lost themselves. Without fail. -A

For our afternoon, I've decided to attempt to give Rhiannon the satisfaction of being fully alone. Not the lethargy of lying on the couch or the dull monotony of drifting off in math class. Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. This alone is not a variation of any of those. This alone is its own being. Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind. Moving with purpose, but not in a rush.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possibly. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be -A

We have the defied the day as it was set out for us