Quotes from David Levithan

Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

flux , n . The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I'm going to use her name. Norah, Norah, Norah - no rhymes really. Just truth. I shouldn't want the song to end. 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.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

I showed him the Post-it. "You see They're from Lily." "Who's Lily?" "Some girl." "Ooh... a girl!" "Boomer, we're not in third grade anymore. You don't say, 'Ooh... a girl!'" "What? You fucking her?" "Okay, Boomer, you're right. I liked 'Ooh... a girl!' much more than that. Let's stick with 'Ooh... a girl!

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

yearning, n. and adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.