Quotes from David Levithan

He says, No I want to be strong in a different way. Not because of me But for me

Green tea? You can't be serious. The old woman nodded her approval. I wasn't. Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.

Hello?" I called. I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

I learn. Sometimes I am taught something I have already been taught in dozens of other classrooms. Sometimes I am taught something completely new. I have to access the body, access the mind and see what information it's retained. And when I do, I learn. Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.

With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.

I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

I liked your eyes and I could tell that you liked my body.

Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

The truth isn't laughable And the trust isn't funny at all.

Let's stay on this song, before it turns to something else, before it switches to a commercial. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I'm keeping to you

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

We're going to get through this. Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let me wear a Walkman...

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

Like everyone else, Avery considers his inner world to be a scary, convoluted, inscrutable place. It is one thing to show someone your best, cleanest version. It's quite another to make him aware of your deeper, jagged self.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never lesrned how to hold on?

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you're trapped.

Even though the own world doesn't matter to her, she matter to the world