Quotes from David Levithan

Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

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

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

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

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.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

By the time I got there, you'd already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

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

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

Love me less, but love me for a long time

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.