Quotes from David Levithan

While nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.

Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know. Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine.

We see each other, and it is enough. For today.

I feel like the mutant among the mutants. Like the boy who showed up at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and found out that, whoops, he didn't have any superpowers at all. I'm so tired of being uncool. You can dress me up, give me a cool boyfriend, even laugh at one of my jokes every now and then — but the anxiety always gives it away.

my body would cry from all it felt and all it couldn't.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

Whenever you're in the worst place, there is always a better place. Your abuser will try to hide it from you, but other people can help you get there.

If you want to be loved, be lovable. It's a good place to start.

he was solid. he was there as i dissolved.

You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

Kids don't give a shit about clipboards.

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.

This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us.

School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.

i do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.

Danny is amazed that he feels so comfortable. He is amazed that while there are some people you can see every day and not say a word to, there are other people whom you can see once a year-or once a decade, or once a life-and say anything.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.

Dumbfounded adj. And still for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you - it renders me wordless.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.

That's what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

I am a solo flier looking out over the land of Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I am three notes in the middle of a song.

you were never worthy if her. she knew so much more than you did. so you had to destroy her. you think you saved her. but you destroyed her.