Quotes from David Levithan

A sound waiting to be a word.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

encroach, v. The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing.

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.