Quotes from David Levithan

And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

WHAT WAS JANE AUSTEN'S LAST FINISHED NOVEL? Vaginas and Virginity. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON IAGO KILLS IN OTHELLO? His manservant Retardio, for forgetting to change the Brita filter! WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LITTLE MERMAID AT THE END OF CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S THE LITTLE MERMAID? She turns into a fish and marries Nemo! Fuck you!

Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

traverse , v. You started to cry, and I quickly said, No -- I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part. And you said, I'm not sure we can. Without even having to think about it, I replied, Of course we can. How can you be so sure? you asked. And I said, I'm sure. Isn't that enough?

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging preventative wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

tenet , n . At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, Love me less, but love me for a long time.

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

I think they have compatible silences.

It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.