Quotes from David Levithan

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first step of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

embracing the wind.

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say.

We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

It's like a fairy tale, and we're the shadows who are turning back into boys.

The weight of the world comes largely from its past.

when I look out a window I wish for you on the other side even if you're not there I can see you in the clouds

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain. "It's okay," I tell her. "It's okay to be happy." The tears come to her eyes.

There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced

Coming out is a lifelong process, Ms. MacTraugh continued. Each time we meet someone new or move to a different setting, we're challenged to reveal who we are. It's not always easy. But no matter how difficult, it's something I've never regretted. So few things in life truly matter. Chief among them are being true to yourself, and being honest with others... As I said, only you can determine what's the right decision.

Being a comfort is itself pretty comforting.

What took you so long? Elijah doesn't know what to say. Shrugs were invented to answer such questions, so that's just what Elijah does.

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

You can say things over and over to yourself, but the moment you say them out loud to someone else, they become something different, like you're taking a fear and giving it a solid shape so it can actually hurt you. And when someone else says the things you're saying in your head—that has the same effect. It should feel better to be sharing it, but it also makes it less deniable.

Seria fácil demais dizer que me sinto invisível. Em vez disso, me sinto dolorosamente visível e totalmente ignorado. As pessoas falam com ela, mas é como se estivessem do lado de fora de uma casa, falando através das paredes. Ela tem amigos, mas são pessoas com quem passa o tempo, não com quem o divide.

Ulimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

People called them freaks not because they were identical but because they were so damn happy.

Seconds pass with every door. Minutes pass with every street. Elijah never realizes that he's lost, so he has no trouble finding his way back.

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

Love is so painful, how could you wish it on anybody?

Nós vamos encontrar um jeito - respondo. - Isso não é uma resposta. É uma esperança. - A esperança nos trouxe até aqui. Não as respostas.

I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.