Quotes from David Levithan

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

abyss , n . There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.