Quotes from David Levithan

Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn't have music, I don't think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn't have special moments, we would never find music.

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God...

We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

I would always wait to take you home.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let in.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn't ther

it's gonna hurt because it matters.

But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

taciturn , adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room -- turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

I have seen this too many times before. 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.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense

I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

I'm glad you're not mad at me, she says. I just want everything to be okay. I nod. If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.