Quotes from David Levithan

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

There is nothing more painful than watching someone give up on you.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

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

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.

What's gone is gone.

We never figured out whether I need to be more reassuring or if he just needs reassurance too much. We both try to readjust our settings to make it okay

maura: i am isaac, will. me: don't be stupid. he's a guy. maura: no he's not. he's a profile. i made him up. me: yeah, right. maura: i did. no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no. me: what? no please no what no no please no fuck no NO. maura: isaac doesn't exist. he's never existed.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

We are the time. We are the breathing. We are the air.

It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This should not happen to you. Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed.

Today was awkward, but I think that's because it feels like a very awkward time. It isn't about you, and it isn't about love. It's about everything crashing together at once.

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

Just be warned, you said. Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it`s going to get ugly.

How did you know it was me?' I have to ask. 'The way you looked at me,' she says, 'It couldn't have been anyone else.

It is still strange to see the skyline. I have never seen an absence that's so physical. It's possible I will see the absence for the rest of my life, even when there is something else there. Which is ok. The thing to remember when looking at an absence is that you are standing outside of it.

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.

Person after person after person... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live. As it is with accidents, so it is with love.

There are those moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.