Quotes from David Levithan

You just make up your mind and it happens.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away.

You like him because he is a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

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

i wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

I don't know how this works. Or why. I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out, any more than a normal person figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

To do this—to understand the full extent to which people can define themselves beyond their bodies—I have had to learn and learn and learn, and then learn some more. And by learn I mean unlearn…and then learn and unlearn and learn some more.

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

The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.

Maybe Dana loved you for your pain. I loved you for everything.

But empty-with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

Elíptico. El beso que más me gusta es el beso lento. El que conlleva tanto aliento como roce, tanto no como sí. Te inclinas de lado y yo debo volverme un poco para que suceda.

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you.

LYNDA (TO TINY): Look forward to the moment when it falls apart. Look forward to the moment when you must rearrange your heart. It might feel like the end of the world- but it's the beginning of your art.

Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

I look for that confirmation that if I didn't have you, I'd still be a person someone would want.

The problem, says my sister, Kelly, is not that I can't get over Naomi - it's that I refuse to.... Loving Naomi and waiting for her to come back to me - it's not a stalker thing, but more like a personal mission. A job.

When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

I am starting to realize what this means, and how sad it would be. I am already feeling some of the sadness now, and it isn't even happening.