Quotes from David Levithan

You need to love him. I don't care who you thought he was, or who you want him to be, you need to love him exactly as he is because your son is a remarkable human being. You have to understand that.

This is Tiny's number, but everybody's going to be looking at the boys in uniform. This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let it.

I wanted my spring awakening, even if it was coming a season late. I wanted summer lovin' that would happen so fast. I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

I don't think anything can stay, he tells me. Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

I tell him goodbye instead - a kind of goodbye that's never, ever final.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore

I wondered: Did mom and Darren hurt us more by what they did or by what they didn't do? Which wounds us more-the hostile presence or the absent kindness?

His "devoted" is italicized by sarcasm, underlined by hurt.

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

Migraines Are Only in Your Mind.

it's all about falling/you land and get up so you can fall again/it's all about falling/i won't be afraid to hit that wall again

once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. even after smoke becomes air there is the memory of smoke.

The tune here is an old-fashioned town-crowd melody--kind of like how the people from the town in The Music Man might sound if Harold Hill had brought an infant homosexual to town instead of wind instruments.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. That

I knew she didn't suffer fools gladly, but she'd gladly make a fool suffer.

striking—a guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

Every traveller returns home.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

I got confused between what I wanted to happen and what I should have known would happen. I've been doing that a lot lately. I know it's not helpful.