Quotes from David Levithan

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that's true, why do they always find us?

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

Caroline's about to say something really harsh, but suddenly Hunter and Dev launch into a fucking Green Day cover, and we're all seven years old again and dancing like we spit out the Ritalin while Mom wasn't looking.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

Its a fine line between love and stalking.

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

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.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing