David Levithan quotes - page 14

Sometimes desire is 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)
me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. View quote
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. View quote
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair. View quote
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I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it. View quote
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster. View quote
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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York. View quote
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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. View quote
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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. View quote
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In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. View quote
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There is always something new to learn about the person you love. (David Levithan)
Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too. View quote
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underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. View quote
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I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. View quote
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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. View quote
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. I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust. View quote
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. View quote
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You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. - Tiny Cooper. View quote
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. View quote
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We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay. View quote
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that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? (David Levithan)
You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more. View quote
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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive. View quote
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To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. View quote
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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. View quote
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