Quotes from David Levithan

I need to figure things out. But how can you figure out something that doesn't have a shape? It's the shapeless things - like love, like attraction - that are the hardest to map -Rhiannon

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, its going to leave you

After awhile, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are.

You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.

It's assumed we'll be giving a present together---that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. -Ben

I am nowhere near wanting to kill myself. But I can understand feeling so detached from your own life. To feel that your connection to everyone else is so thin that all it would take is one decisive snip to be separated completely. If i don't cling, I drift. I feel that no one is holding me. In my life, I am the only one who holds.

There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs, dictate the life.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. -The Escalator, A Love Story

And what I want to tell him is that now I understand why people want to share a life with someone else. I see what all the fuss is about. It's not about sex or being in a couple when you hang out with other couples. It's not for ego or gratification or fear of loneliness. It's about this, whatever this is. -Rhiannon

Quería que el amor lo conquistase todo. Pero el amor no puede conquistarlo todo. No puede hacerlo todo por sí solo. Ha de confiar en que seamos nosotros quienes conquistamos por él

Quando te vi hoje, não sabia que estava te esperando até você aparecer. E então toda aquela espera tomou conta de mim em um segundo.

Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

It is my father who looks diminished now. 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.

We are a team of two. And since it's not a competition, we've already won -Rhiannon

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

We become, for a few short seconds, our own time zone.

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

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

We all have days that alter the course of our lives. Not each and every day, maybe. But a lot of them. Most of them.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.