Quotes from David Levithan

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt -A

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to—I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.

Esto es lo que no admitimos sobre los primeros besos: una de las cosas más gratificantes acerca de ellos es que son la prueba, la prueba real, de que la otra persona realmente quiere besarnos. Somos deseables y deseamos. Cada beso importante implica un reconocimiento.

He says presents aren't important, but I think they are __ not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.

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 -A

Am vrut ca iubirea sa invinga tot. Dar iubirea nu poate sa invinga nimic. Ea nu poate sa faca nimic de una singura. Se bazeaza pe noi. Sa invingem in numele ei.

There was never that big a disturbance," she tells me. "I didn't think of myself as a boy or a girl—I never have. I would just think of myself as a boy or a girl for a day. It was like a different set of clothes.

There are so many things inside of her that I want to know. And at the same time, with every word we speak, I feel there may be something inside of her that I already know. When I get there, we will recognize each other. We will have that.

É como se, ao amar alguém, essa pessoa se tornasse sua razão. E talvez seja o inverso; talvez eu tenha me apaixonado por ela porque preciso de uma razão.

but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on

I want to argue with her, tell her that sins of the flesh is just a control mechanism-if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

I hate the way I don't hate you - not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E quero que minha vida seja real.

Appropriate. The word is a well-dressed cage, used to capture the truth and hang it in a room that no one ventures into.

tiny doesn't just sing these words - he belts them. it's like a parade coing out of his mouth. i have no doubt the words travel over lake michigan to most of canada and on to the north pole. the farmers of saskatchewan are crying. santa is turning to mrs. claus and saying 'what the fuck is that? - will grayson

Hang out? his mother said. Sweetheart, laundry hangs out.

Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

Não tenho muito a perder. Mas, sem dúvida, vai parecer que perdi tudo.

Do you think there can be such a thing as too much happiness?