Quotes from David Levithan

The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms.

Sostén. No quiero ser el fuerte, pero tampoco quiero ser el débil. ¿Por qué siempre da la impresión de que hay que ser uno u otro? Cuando nos abrazamos, siempre hay uno que aprieta con un poco más de fuerza.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful – the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

And if you ever get the feeling you want to run away again, talk to someone about it. Because running away without a word is never going to be the answer to your problems; it will only cause more problems.

before I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about. This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know. Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance? Or does it come much later?

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

So 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.

Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.

I still sing him songs before I am ready, sing him back the moments he has missed. as if to say, this is where I was when you couldn't find me.

He is both the source of my happiness and the one I want to share it with. I have to believe that's a sign.

We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always in your heart.

Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean.

Some of us loved. Some of us couldn't. Some of us were loved. Some of us weren't. Some of us never understood what the fuss was about. Some of us wanted it so badly that we died trying. Some of us swear we died of heartbreak, not AIDS.

Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

A mismatch is the only kind of match that's worth making.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses.

I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I couldn't turn it off, but I could forget to turn it on. Gradually, the columns began to tip. I lost track of keeping track. In order to let us be, I let myself be.

We're still here, if you want to come back.' 'I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust.