Quotes from David Levithan

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

Make more than dust.

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote Dear Sofia or Dear Boomer or Dear Lily's Great-Aunt at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote Dear Lily, was that just a version of Dear Myself? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

arrears , n . My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

I want this world small enough for the two of us I want you to think of me that way I want this world to crash us into marvelous I want you to kiss me and say:

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.