Quotes from David Levithan

Every kiss that matters contains a recognition at its core.

I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story but passing by too quickly to notice or understand

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. We remember this feeling so acutely - the desire to linger away the hours with someone else, talking or holding or even just watching a movie. In those moment, the clock seems arbitrary, since you are setting your understanding of time to another, more personal measure.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you...

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God," Tony says when I pick up the phone.

The song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" comes on Tariq's playlist, which makes Harry think of the movie Beautiful Thing, as Tariq no doubt knew it would. Harry can feel Craig smile under his lips, and knows he must be sharing the same thought. As confirmation, Harry feels Craig's finger on his back, tracing the letter B, then T. They start to shuffle and slow-dance. It feels good to move their legs.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

epithet, n. I think the worst you ever called me was a cunt rag. You mean I'm a tampon? I asked. I'm a tampon for not letting you drive? I laughed. You didn't. At least, not until you sobered up.

Its hard for her. Every answer starts with the phrase I don't know. But most of the time she does know...

Where is your homework? Mr. McNulty asked. It's with Ariel. There's no such thing as homework, I said. What? I mean, I left it at home.

I wondered if this was how you'd felt. I wondered if I was making myself feel how you'd felt. I knew it wasn't a choice. It was just what my mind was doing. Although I could've been fighting it more.

Time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

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.

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

Dude, nobody puts baby in a corner.

I never said a bad word about him. The whole time the two of your were together. Not one bad thing.

the sadness will ebb the trouble is the time it might take

I've tried breaking things to feel better - and found that it only feels better while things are breaking, not the next moment, when they're broken. It's a release that leads to nowhere.

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.

All the other things I am - they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell

Maybe, I say, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.