S.A. David Quotes

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

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?

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

You will always be my always.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

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.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

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.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

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.

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

I have become very good at clearing histories.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

The world, right now, is only us.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

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.

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.