Quotes from David Levithan

Danny feels his somberness confirmed __ how else can one feel when surrounded by such a majority of ghosts? You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

I am tired of not feeling. I am tired of not connecting.

Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Somos verdaderos apasionados del amor, enamorados de su candor, espantados de su dolor, sensibles a su sentir pero jamás dispuestos a huirle. Coqueteamos con sus claroscuros, nos perdemos entre sus matices, nos cubrimos ante sus destellos de luz y nos asomamos a sus sombras.

Sei disso há algum tempo, mas você pode saber de algo durante anos sem que isso realmente o atinja.

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

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

Our lives are different. Inexplicably, intrinsically joined, but different.

At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.

He is tired, but he's free. He is living, because he's in motion.

I am not kissing her because I want to, and I am not kissing her because I need to - I am kissing her for a reason that transcends want and need, that feels elemental to our existence, a molecular component on which our universe will be.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.

Where did you go? Around. The weather was good? Yeah. It didn't rain? Nope. That's good. Yeah. Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation.

Sisters dress up to rehearse for what will really happen to them. But brothers, Elijah realizes, are never rehearsing that way. They rehearse their own illusions, until reality takes a turn and they are asked to rehearse for other things. You go to school. You graduate. You sell snack cakes. You hang up your cape and put on a suit.

Queria que o amor conquistasse tudo. Mas o amor não conquista tudo. Ele não pode fazer nada sozinho. Ele depende de nós para conquistar em seu nome.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it.

I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.

We are so much louder together than apart. We are so much brighter together than apart.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is. I

Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?

Not getting what you want can make you curel.