Quotes from David Levithan

wenn etwas zerbricht, dann ist es nicht das zerbrechen, was verhindert, dass sich alles wieder fügt. es liegt daran, dass ein stück verloren gegangen ist, und sei es auch noch so winzig - die beiden verbliebenen stücke passen einfach nicht mehr zueinander, egal was man versucht. die gesamte struktur hat sich verändert.

Insight, n.: How telling that there isn't anything called "outsight," as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

I study the people in the class, in a somewhat dreamy math-soundtracked daze.

I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

Budowanie charakteru nie polega na wymyÅ›laniu siÄ™ na nowo, a na dokÅ'adaniu do tego, co ju? masz. Do tych elementów, które sÄ… trwaÅ'e i mocne. Do tego, co kochasz.

I feel more like myself than I usually do because as I swim, I don't need to fully exist.

Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.

Some people think that mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something you have choice over.

Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.

But there are moments—either in your own life or the life of the world around you—when an event looks you right in the eye and says: This is important. What are you going to do?

It's a dull, quiet building in a dull, quiet town—its architecture as beautiful as the word municipal.

Bycie w odpowiednim miejscu w odpowiednim czasie i wsparcie t? obecno?ci? drugiego cz?owieka to najlepsze, co mo?emy robi? dla siebie nawzajem.

Good doesn't triumph because anybody tells it to. It triumphs when we push it and carry it and shout it and embrace it until it triumphs.

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 only way to deal with the future is to make sure the present is okay.

They beat the shit out of me," he told people, soon after. "But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

Cooper's loathing of everyone else—his parents, the people in his town, the men he chats with—is surpassed only by his loathing of himself.

It's just extraordinary to me that the story I write in relative isolation can then connect with so many people, and that the meaning I put into it somehow translates into meaning for a reader. I don't think you can ever expect that.

En esta vida extraña, lo que quiero por encima de todo es que Tony sea feliz. Hace mucho tiempo que sabemos que no estábamos predestinados a enamorarnos, pero una parte de mí sigue ilusionándose por él. Quiero un mundo justo. Y en un mundo justo, Tony brillaría.

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.

Todo es tan sencillo que me dan ganas de flotar por el aire. Él se alegra de que lo haya encontrado. Yo me alegro de haberlo encontrado. No nos da miedo reconocerlo.

Want costs you nothing, unless you try to spend it.