Quotes from David Levithan

Los planes son las coordenadas; el plan, el mapa entero.

This is the hard part about having 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.

And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?

The joy is in remembering; the pain is knowing it was yesterday.

En una primera cita buena, todo es primavera. Y cuando una de esas citas se convierte en una relación, la primavera continúa. Incluso cuando todo ya se ha acabado, puede seguir siendo primavera.

If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions.

Incluso cuando la mente descarta la historia de amor, hay ocasiones que el cuerpo tarda en captar el mensaje.

The way she includes me, the way she takes this total stranger and makes her feel a part of this world, makes me care about her even more. It's one thing to be love-worthy when you are interacting with your boyfriend; it's another when you act the same way with a girl you don't know -A

With the right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. But it helps to have it late at night.

I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.

try not to listen to it, but when someone tells you those things enough, you can't help it. Because if they speak loud enough and often enough, that's the only voice you're able to hear.

We choose how much of the world we want to let into our lives. Both the beauty of it and the horror of it. There has to be a point of insulation -- but some of us insulate real close right down to our very selves and others insulate wider, let more of the world in.

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.

If I had been the same age. If I had gone to the same school. If I was in that room right now. There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reason to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most- the chance to make it work.

There are friends; but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

He is more attractive than I thought, but also uglier. His features are attractive, but what he does with them is not. He wears the superior scowl of someone who can barely hide his feelings of inferiority. His eyes are full of scattershot anger, his posture one of defensive bravado -A

Our kisses were seismic.

Naps can be devils of disorientation.

And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.

His gratitude is a rare thing—it is much more likely for a boy to feel thankful for the Diet Dr Pepper than he is to feel thankful for being healthy and alive, for being able to walk to his boyfriend's house at age fifteen without any doubt that this is the right thing to do.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

I try to tamp them down, but they're not that easy to contain. Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.

Lo que tú sientes es absolutamente lo correcto para ti. Siempre recuerda eso.