David Levithan Quotes

I am here because of love.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I only have eyes for you.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

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.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

Love me less, but love me for a long time.

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.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

I have always found peace among books.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.

the heart knows nothing except its own mind

It’s okay, ” I tell her.“It is okay to be happy

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

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

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

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

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

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

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

It was a mistake, " you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

the sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might take

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

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.