David Levithan quotes

Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. (David Levithan)
Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
David Levithan
This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.
David Levithan
when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.
David Levithan
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
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It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy.
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I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.
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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: 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.
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I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
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You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail. (David Levithan)
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.
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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
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She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.
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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.
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I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone.
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You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
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There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.
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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
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When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.
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breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. (David Levithan)
Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.
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I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
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me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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