Quotes from David Levithan

You don't need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens.

The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts. But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

seriously, is this what the rest of my life is going to be? i don't think i signed up for this.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

So what's your story?" Ryan asks. Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?" "Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.

You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. I loved being the supporting character, because I felt it was my way of supporting you. I asked for nothing in return and wanted so much.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.

i am constantly telling him that i'm not sure the laws of sex and the city apply when there's no sex and there's no city, but then he looks at me like i'm throwing spiked darts at the heart-shaped helium balloons that populate his mind, so i let it go

this is why we call people exes, i guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end

If act one in life is about finding yourself, then act two is about finding everyone else.

want to see you, but I'm not sure if we should do that. I want to hear about what's going on, but I'm afraid that will only start everything again. I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

I instantly feel like the world has turned to glass. Every moment is delicate. Every movement is a risk.

Love means never having to lose your limbs.

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.

Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before--the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread