Quotes from David Levithan

This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.

Yeah, I said. You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics. There are so many things I wish I hadn't said.

Under the table, I crossed my legs so hard it hurt. I was using all the strength it would take to run away, only to stay still.

When he really, really likes a girl, he creates a font and names it after her.

The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage.

Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she'd realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world.

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

What are you thinking, Evan? So I told him. Every you, every me. Fractals. Fracturs. I wonder who she is now, I said. So do I, Jack admitted. All the time.

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that,somewhere,there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you say anything to her,whenever you need to. And she can do the same,whenever she needs to. Most of the time this is not necessary. But the secret smile comes from knowing it's available,even when she's half a world away.

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.

I checked my email. this is it this is what it feels like to be helpless.

It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That is about as accurate as I can get. There were sneak previews of knowing, for sure. Instances that me feel, oh, this could be right. But the moment I shifted from a hope that needed to be proven to a certainty that would be continually challenged? There's no pinpointing that.

I didn't mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can't erase it. I can't ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you're the thing that has made me wish it could stop.

I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.

I am not the enter of anything.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?

suffuse , v. I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work.

Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of the objects.

Please tell me this pity party ends early. Or at least serves cake.

As we gossiped over grilled cheese, I rubbed my bare ankle against hers. Not to be provocative or possessive. Just because it felt good to have that spot on me touch that spot on her.

After all, people are always separable.

More than anything else, we want to fit into our own families.