Quotes from David Levithan

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

i think of friendship in terms of love...

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

Now they are struggling to find that balance-- separated but still inseparable, apart but still a part.

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it.

He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra

No matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

We know what it's like to need to hold on. We hold on to you. Which is to say, we hold on to life.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting? I shake my head. You try to leave the lives the way you found them. Yeah. But what about Justin? What made that so different? You, I say.

moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.

there's no such thing as a fuck cure. a fuck cure is like the adult version of santa claus

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

that is why we call people exes i guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that, the X is a diagram of two paths.