David Levithan quotes - page 18

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that. (David Levithan)
Make more than dust.
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It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn." "My eyes!" Boomer cried. "My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it!
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hurt tends to drown out sorry.
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. In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.
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And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
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If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.
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When you break someone's heart, you also break yours.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o. w. g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good.... Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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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)
I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
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People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that's true, why do they always find us?
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. At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.
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We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are.
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There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living. We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. WE make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
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Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.
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i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can't be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.
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Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.
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The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.
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I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa) (David Levithan)
I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.
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I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
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You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [...] Your life is not disposable.
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She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
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