Quotes from David Levithan

Tiny is trying his darnedest to start a musical conversation with Phil, but at first, Phil's not into it. Luckily, Tiny's persistent—like Angel in Rent, but without the cross-dressing and the specter of AIDS hovering over everything.

Thinking is your favorite thing to do, isn't it? Sometimes it's endearing but sometimes it's completely exhausting.

We're not gay. We're eight.

But a lot of the time, I'm just a spot. It all feels so big, and I'm just a spot.

We were walking home late from a bar—and the term walking is used loosely here, because you were doing something between a skip and a stumble—and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn't want you to stop. I didn't mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn't mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

You are a miserable excuse for a boyfriend! You are, like, the safety school of boyfriends. You are the beige of boyfriends. You are the plain yogurt of boyfriends.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this

It's weird how much that helps. To have one other person know the truth. To have that reflecting back at me. I don't actually need the world to know. Just one or two people.

Are you going to be someone who takes charge of her feelings and her actions, even if the outcome might hurt, or someone who lets herself be unhappy simply because she won't ask for what she wants?

There's always tomorrow, I tell myself. Which sounds less possible than someday, and much more possible than never. -A

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it—he wonders what that means.

It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strenght, it was taken from us.

i would give anything to not have to spend the next twenty minutes sitting across from her, because she doesn't believe in letting silence go. no, she has to fill it up with talk. i want to tell her that's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts, but she doesn't want to be with her thoughts unless she's saying them out loud.

If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

Supongo que no creo que estas cosas puedan ser fáciles, aunque tampoco veo por qué tendrían que ser difíciles.

jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.

Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

No sólo está narrando la historia, me la está dando.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the things we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another.

I felt there was a piece of me missing, a piece that had become so unnerved that it fell away without me feeling it. I didn't even know what piece it was-I just felt the gap, and knew that whatever it was, it must have been important.

It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This

That's okay, you told me. I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary.