Quotes from David Levithan

Two sixty-three. Noah tells me. ?!??? I reply.

It felt a littlel less like a game. A trick. A trap.

hang me/like a dead rose/preserve me/and my petals won't fall/until you touch them/and i dissolve

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below we allow ourselves to breathe fully. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

Because we can't stop the weltschmerz, we can't stop imagining the world as it might be. Which is awesome! It is my favorite thing about us!

People take love's continuity for granted...

I am trying not to think of endings.

and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.

I knew I should have call Jack, should have told him...but I didn't. Not yet. I was afraid of him thinking that I was crazy, too. I wasn't sure what he'd do if he saw me drowning. I wasn't sure he'd save me unless he was saving himself. what he'd say.

To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it -- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted -- surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I'd had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.

Perhaps it never happened. Perhaps it happened while I was asleep. Most likely, there's no signal event. There's just the steady accumulation of 'awhile'.

Because what is life if not a series of loud and quiet moments shuffled together with some music thrown in?

You are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting. Not Tiny Cooper. He comes into the world singing.

indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising, I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

It would be too easy to say that i feel invisible. Instead, i feel painfully visible, and enterily ignored.

me: what's disgusting? simon: you know, that you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.