Quotes from David Levithan

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

It's good to share a life—and it's good to share minutes and hours, too, Danny thinks. With a wife. With a husband. With a boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend. With a fling. With a brother.

All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to truth.

All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself.

There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations – all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters, my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty, sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself.

I decided if I were ever to get into booze and woman, my line would be Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you...Are you perchance free this evening?

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.

I want to take back at least half the "I love you"s, because it feels safer that way.

What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done?

Chaste with a chance of inveterate lust.

x, n. Doesn't it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth of the possibility of our language, and we let it languish. If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x.

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

crave, v.: Nothing makes me feel as welcome in the world as the sound of you laughing at a joke I've made.

The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.)

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)

What if Katie Couric had turned to me and said, "The love of your life is here in this crowd"? Would I have believed her? Would it have even been possible, if we'd met then?

They certainly won't think she's been taken over by the devil. If anything, they're suspicious that the devil's taken a day off.

Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.