Quotes from David Levithan

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I access our history and get the usual muddle of love and competition that any two sisters share.

How did you know it was me?" I have to ask. "The way you looked at me," she says. "It couldn't have been anyone else." This

Kids don't really hear their parents giggle enough if you ask me.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of its choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

You never asked what my anthem was. But that's okay, because I still don't know what I'd answer.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

What we are saying is that we did see. And what did we do? We acted blind, and we moved on. That is not the gospel.

Fate has a strange way of making plans,' I agreed.

How can something that doesn't have a form, doesn'r have a definition, doesn't have words-how can it have such weight? And yet, there's the need to swim.

Your heart is stronger than any of the hurts inflicted. Even the ones that were self-inflicted. - Ezra

You didn't even know my name, I thought. You're just repeating what he said.

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below us, we allow ourselves to breathe fully.

That's not what it means, you told me. And anyway don't you feel naked now? You fell quiet, gestured for me to listen. The sound of the woods, the feel of the air. ... The sky, so present. And you, watching me take it all in. Naked to the world, the world naked to us.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends—an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels—and it is that—comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there.

It's heaven, heaven, heaven when you When you find love and romance on the menu.

It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

These books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change.