Quotes from David Levithan

I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge.

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.

his train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends

When I saw you today -- I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of the waiitng rushed through me in a second. That's something .... but I don't know if it's certainty.

If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?

In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There's the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there's the kind of looking that's like slurping a Coke.

There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.

It is too easy to be ignored in this world, so you've gotta put yourself up front if you want to be counted, and to count.

I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense.

Plus/minus Positive/negative 1/0 I can/ I can't I will/ I won't You are/You aren't I said/I thought I said I will/I thought I can't I thought I can/I said You won't

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

When I'm with you, I belong. It just naturally felt like that.

Do they sleep? I want to know...am I the only one who doesn't sleep?

Even now, you refused to be pixelated, forgotten, silenced, erased. Not that I wanted to erase you. The opposite. I wanted the opposite.

I'll see you later, I say. Such a basic promise. But to Rhiannon, it means the world.

all i wanted was one fucking break, one idiotic good thing, and that was clearly too much to ask for, too much to want.

I prayed last night, too,' she said to me, glaring at Mary Catherina's direction. 'I prayed for a good long time to God to do the right thing in Kansas. That's all I said--the right thing. And I guess that's the difference between Mary Catherine and me: I don't feel I need to tell the Lord what the right thing is. I have faith the Lord knows.

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

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold on to anything that's her.

I said I hated life. You said you hated life. We decided to hate it together.

Back to the present. I found you in my locker the next morning. Not you. A photograph. But for a moment, it felt like finding a body, It felt like finding what you I needed to be found.