Quotes from David Levithan, Every Day

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

It's okay, " I tell her."It is okay to be happy

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.