Quotes from David Levithan

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you're trapped.

I am here because of love.

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

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.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.