Quotes from David Levithan

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.

SEE THIS SCREAM-IT'S FOR YOU, SEE THIS HURT-IT'S BY YOU, SEE THIS MARK-IT'S FROM YOU

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

dumbfounded , adj . And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could findsomeone like you — it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turnof events.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.

but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

It's a fine line between love and stalking. I decide to walk it.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

The words just start to fall there. And I feel some satisfaction from that. I've never written just for myself. And I've never written for anyone else. I write for the release of it. For finding out what will be there when I am done.

As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

It is always the ones who believe that are hurt the worst when things go wrong.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

I love you," she says. "I love you," I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense.

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.