Quotes from David Levithan

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

obstinate , adj . Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

I have lied so often that I've lost track of the truth.

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

No, he finally said. I don't think you're boring. I think there are times you don't allow yourself to be interesting...but clearly that can change.

What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?

When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

These words are now mine, but soon they'll be ours.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? "I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

I love books about freaks, because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.

I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.

All the feelings Are dead inside me And I want them To be alive

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.