Quotes from David Levithan

It is a terrible thing to not feel missed.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

And love, I learned, is a constant act of creation, just as creation is almost always an act of love.

No! Tony/Toni/Toné exclaims. I saw the two of you canoodling. You're a regular Johnny Castle. I have no idea who Johnny Castle is, but I definitely approve of the name.

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.

The had compatible silences.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself togheter. And then everything falls apart anyway.

Eventually, we all must go to sleep. This is our first intimation that the body always wins. No matter how hapywe are, no matter ow much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable. You might be able to dodge it for one giddy cycle, but the body's need will always return.

I know that deep down, I mean the world to him. - Deep down? [...] You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

no matter how hard it was to understand, she would be on my side. Fiercely. Unconditionally.

They'd been friends for a little while but they'd never talked about how they felt.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider.

She went on. There's the drown of things and the swim of things, I guess. I've been going back and forth, back and forth. I feel the weight of it. And this bewilderment - how can something that doesn't have a form, doesn't have a definition, doesn't have words - how can it have such weight? And yet, there's the need to swim. Life goes on, I offered. Yeah, but you see, 'Life goes on' is as a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer (...)

I am kissing her for a reason that transcends want and need, that feels elemental to our existence, a molecular component on which our universe will be built.

El silencio equivale a la muerte", solíamos decir. Y por debajo de eso estaría la suposición –el miedo– de que la muerte equivalía al silencio.

I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.

Jerk, v. "This has to stop," I say. "You have to stop hurting me. I can`t take it. I really can`t take it." "I know you can`t take it," you say. "But is that really my fault?" I try to convince myself that it`s the alcohol talking. But alcohol can`t talk. It just sits there. It can`t even get itself out of the bottle. "It is your fault," I tell you. But you have already left the room.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

Intentar escribir sobre el amor es, en última instancia, lo mismo que intentar que un diccionario represente la vida. No importa cuántas palabras contenga, nunca serán suficientes.

He doesn't want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now.

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.