David Levithan Quotes
I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?
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.
Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
tiny: did someone die?me: yeah, i did.he smiles again at that.tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.
Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.
The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.
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.
It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say.
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.
To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.
LYNDA (TO TINY):Look forward to the momentwhen it falls apart.Look forward to themomentwhen you mustrearrange yourheart.It might feel like theend of the world-but it's the beginning of yourart.
you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.
I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.
I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she’s at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.
The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat’s what unlonely is like
All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.
I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.
When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.
Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.
It might feel like the end of the world--but it's the beginning of your art.
It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.
She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.
The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.
