Quotes from David Levithan

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

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.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones.

I'm not in love with you.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

Its a fine line between love and stalking.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Love is the higher law.

There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.