Quotes from David Levithan

Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted.

We have fallen through the surface of want and are deep.

I realize that miss her or not missing her isn't the point. The point is that I'm still carrying around what happened as much as she is. And I need to get rid of it.

Así que, un día cuando dos hombres pasaron por delante de ellos tomados de la mano, Austin dijo:—Oye podríamos ser nosotros dentro de diez años. Y Hugo dijo:—O de diez meses. Y Austin dijo:—O de diez días. Y Hugo dijo:—O de diez minutos. Y Austin dijo:—O de diez segundos. Entonces, contaron hasta diez y se tomaron de la mano y no se soltaron durante el resto del día.

You won't cry, and that makes me want to.

and all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera, because the two of you were such a funny picture. Instead, we have this blurry, happy shot, which must mean something to you if you carry it around like this, folded to fit.

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

I cried because I am starting to realize that to love someone, to really love them deeply, is to want them to be family.

i am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia i don't give a fuck

Here's the thing—even if it was just sex, even if he didn't say "I love you," even if I knew it wouldn't last, you have to understand that I would have been alone without him. I would have been so alone.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

Aturdido. Mi fidelidad era tan impensable como lo fue tu lapsus. De todas las cosas que creí que podían ir mal, nunca pensé que fuera precisamente esa. - Ha sido un error -dijiste. Pero lo cruel fue que sentí que el error había sido mío, por confíar en ti.

I was daunted by you, and you were daunted by me. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. Noticing the way she smells like oversugared coffee, and the difference between her smile and her photographed smile, and the way she bites her lower lip, and the pale skin of her back. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance-I don't want to have to acknowledge I am noticing.

I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

Codiciar. Existe una diferencia entre tú y yo: tú deseas lo que tienen los otros mientras que yo deseo las cosas que tenía, o las que creo que tendré en el futuro.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience

Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn't mind talking to lonely people. He is the Mother Teresa of banter.

Flujo. El estado natural. Cambiamos de humor. Cambian nuestras vidas. Cambian nuestros sentimientos hacia el otro. Cambian nuestras relaciones. Cambia la canción. Cambia el aire. Cambia la temperatura del agua de la ducha. Acéptalo. Hay que aceptarlo.

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

They kept fighting, even after we were gone. Or especially because we were gone. They kept fighting for us. We are gone and maybe our spirits are gone too, as the ones who knew us stop remembering us so often, or come to join us. But the spirit of that strengh it carries through.