Quotes from David Levithan

I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.

it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

candid , adj . Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading. This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date. I guess I was just giving you a warning. Most times when I'm reading, you said, I'd rather be having sex.

I'm not a very happy person, I told him.But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.