David Levithan Quote #1
'I'm sorry,' he says. 'I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.'
David Levithan Quote #2
(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
-David Levithan (Every Day)David Levithan Quote #3
- Nós vamos encontrar um jeito - respondo.
- Isso não é uma resposta. É uma esperança.
- A esperança nos trouxe até aqui. Não as respostas.David Levithan Quote #4
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
David Levithan Quote #5
...I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. Your reading of them changes--you can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back.
David Levithan Quote #6
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
David Levithan Quote #7
abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.David Levithan Quote #8
abyss, n.
There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.David Levithan Quote #9
ardent, adj.
It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly thought... it was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and the only thing this sound could make me think of was you. Sometimes desire is in the air; sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.David Levithan Quote #10
better, adj. and adv.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.David Levithan Quote #11
breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.David Levithan Quote #12
cadence, n.
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 Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.David Levithan Quote #13
contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain.
When I was a kid, I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are.
For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered.
Contiguous.
And I knew you understood.David Levithan Quote #14
dumbfounded, adj.
And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we’re together. That someone like me could findsomeone like you — it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turnof events.David Levithan Quote #15
libidinous, adj.
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.David Levithan Quote #16
misgivings, n.
Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
There are things I miss, you said. But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.David Levithan Quote #17
recant, v.
I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn’t get it and said it was hipster trash. I want to take back what I said about you being an emotional zombie. I want to take back the time I called you “honey” in front of your sister and you looked like I had just shown her pictures of us having sex. I want to take back the wineglass I broke when I was mad, because it was a nice wineglass and the argument would have ended anyway. I want to take back the time we had sex in a rent-a-car, not because I feel bad about the people who got in the car after us, but because it was massively uncomfortable. I want to take back the trust I had while you were away in Austin. I want to take back the time I said you were a genius, because I was being sarcastic and I should have just said you’d hurt my feelings. I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.David Levithan Quote #18
A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That’s what unlonely is likeDavid Levithan Quote #19
After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.
David Levithan Quote #20
Also, I’m not going to be
devastated or anything either way. I’m not that kind of person. I just think if you don’t say the
honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—” she says,
but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too
fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don’t say the honest thing, it
never becomes true.David Levithan Quote #21
An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving.
David Levithan Quote #22
and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.
David Levithan Quote #23
and the HE stands up. if frenchy's could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they'd probably own half of chicago within a year. he's what would happen after nine months if abercrombie fucked fitch. he's like a movie star, an olympic swimmer, and america's next top male model all at once. he's wearing a silver shirt and pink pants. everything about him sparkles.
not my type at all. but...David Levithan Quote #24
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.
David Levithan Quote #25
and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.David Levithan Quote #26
Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. 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. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.
David Levithan Quote #27
As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter.
You up? he asks.
And the reply comes instantly:
For anything.David Levithan Quote #28
As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.
David Levithan Quote #29
Aska düstügün anda sana sanki ardinda yüzyillar varmis gibi gelir, kusaklar varmis gibi—hepsi kendini ayarlar ki bu kusursuz, kiymetli an yasanabilsin. Ne kadar aptalca oldugunu bilsen de her seyin seni buraya getirdigini, tüm gizli oklarin burayi isaret ettigini, evrenin ve zamanin bunu uzun bir süre önce yarattiklarini ve senin henüz fark ettigini, hep olman gereken yere henüz vardigini kalbinde, kemiklerinde hissedersin.
David Levithan Quote #30
Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.
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