There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.
David Levithan
Related I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me? JOHN SHORT I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn... SARAH DESSEN i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something... WOW Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss. Something abou... KIERA CASS The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th... DALEEN IRSHAID We showed signs in the beginning of the game, but then we panicked at times. We didnt execute things... ALEX HERNANDEZ I felt like Ford was going to take care of me and they talked to me and answered my questions. They ... TAYLOR FLOYD That man made me feel things I never imagined could be felt. He made me want things I wasn't sure I ... NICOLE WILLIAMS Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he describ... BILL FERGUSON You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the be... NICHOLAS SPARKS You said that we would stay forever, the only problem was that you later walked away from me and did... SANDIBEL DIAZ We were sitting there talking about something, when he put his arm around me. The next thing I knew,... DOLLE HAVEN There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... JOSEPH HELLER There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck. HUBERT SELBY JR. [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng... DAN HARRIS I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like ... CONOR MCGREGOR Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m... DONALD MILLER I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don... GINA MCKEE And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow,... JACKSON PEARCE He was the worst kind of wrong. He was so wrong it felt right, and that made me feel complete... BECCA FITZPATRICK I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying... SUZANNE COLLINS There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thin... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT The way the other teams are attacking me, I feel like I'm a fifth-year senior. (The Lobos) were talk... BRANDON EWING It was a messy situation. I think David felt extremely betrayed. David told me that he felt of Lou a... NIKKI SYMINGTON felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed... SUZANNE COLLINS I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come ... ABBY WAMBACH why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo... GRACE I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That mad... LUKE PERRY He was easy-going. He was easy to talk to. He made me feel comfortable, AMBER FREY It was tough, but I was really young when it happened, ... It's part of life. It's something that ma... WALI LUNDY When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE I remember when I was younger I always looked up to the older guys. They always made me feel comfort... MARTIN KLIMES I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as ... DENIS VILLENEUVE Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentione... MICHAEL FINKEL Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me!... CASSANDRA CLARE It’s me,” he said, and cleared his throat. “I could understand if you didn’t believe me, but... CASSANDRA CLARE They definitely told me right off the bat I was still a big part of the team. They made sure to tell... ANDREA VALADEZ Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of hol... ALBERT CAMUS I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so valu... FIONA THRUST He made me feel comfortable, ... He treated us so nice and he answered all of our questions. HEATHER BUCK For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by h... RACHEL HARTMAN I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends. GWEN STEFANI You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the... MAGGIE STIEFVATER If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER It was an emotional night, an extraordinary moment, ... I wish Dad was there to touch and feel the s... CAL RIPKEN His eyes softened. I thought maybe he pitied me, but it was something else. "Ultimately, it will be ... KAMI GARCIA Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise... ROGER ZELAZNY I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ... ERYKAH BADU [But even aspirin cant counteract the] universal fear epidemic ... that didnt truly threaten us. The... MARC SIEGEL I was devastated. I was ecstatic that the team made it there, but at the same time, to be right ther... BROOKE WYCKOFF I know I was wrong yesterday to say those things, ... But today, those guys made me feel better. Tha... CARLOS SILVA Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I kn... JOHN LOGAN Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever ... DANIEL KEYES When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, jus... PAULA POUNDSTONE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to mak... BRUCE COVILLE WOW DID I JUST SEE LIL B? THE MYTH ?? THE AMERICAN HERO AND LEGEND? WORLD WIDE LEGEND! I ... BRANDON MCCARTNEY It calms me down seeing E.J. there. But I think it would have made me a little calmer if he had won ... MARK NOE I felt like Rhett started to get some rhythm and confidence in what he was doing, ... Our receivers ... BOB STOOPS Fletcher caught me and said something and there was no need for it. Sometimes when you go to that pl... FRANK LAMPARD I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and emp... C. JOYBELL C. In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only d... JOE PANTOLIANO I felt comfortable around the guys. I felt it would be a good place for me. ... I respect Coach Rive... JASPER JOHNSON You feel it too, don’t you?” I don’t have to ask her what she’s talking about. I felt it the... J. SAMAN Once I hit my first shot I felt comfortable. And Coach was confident in me. He told me to keep shoot... KATIE OLSON We were part of the team that started it and to be part of the team that ended it wouldn't be someth... CHAD GREENWAY When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. ... SARAH FERGUSON I cheered them on. I did feel a little detached, but they made me feel like I was a part of it. RAMON PETTUS this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir... PRISCILLA WARNER Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stag... NORAH JONES There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased'... THOMAS NEWMAN He made some great decisions late in the game. On that first pass to Crumpler, we were talking about... BRIAN FINNERAN We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serio... ELEANOR CATTON When I was trying to adapt, he was one of the guys who tried to make me feel comfortable and was rea... BORIS DIAW It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to b... P.G. WODEHOUSE I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about... PAULA JONES Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b... KRISTEN ASHLEY But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. DAVID LEVITHAN We were all talking about it when we came into the dugout. He's Barry Bonds. I don't know how he hit... JOHN PATTERSON There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL He was trying to say to you or to me what he felt at the moment when he made the photograph. BILL TURNAGE All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-withou... BROCK CLARKE It was one of those nights I was seeing it well, ... Maybe it had something to do with Jacque moving... JOE MAUER So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we... LAUREN MYRACLE I think first of all during that time, I felt comfortable there. It?s home to me, and I wanted to go... JOE RICHARDSON There was a need for me to be here, and they went out and got me. I believe we are going to win a ch... MARCO RIVERA It just felt like that was our best chance to get things rolling, getting me comfortable, getting me... J.P. LOSMAN It was a little tougher getting there because I didn't feel as sharp command wise. But I felt that I... BRANDON MCCARTHY Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's somethi... DAVE GAHAN Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ... CHRIS CRUTCHER But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left... MAGGIE STIEFVATER it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt MARTIN VAN BUREN I felt I could run faster than I did (at the combine). I didn't feel comfortable there. I was out of... DEE WEBB When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of... RACHEL KELLER Alice asked me to his bus one time to sit me down and talk about how out of control I was during So ... DAVE MUSTAINE
More David Levithan
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T... DAVID LEVITHAN With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus. DAVID LEVITHAN I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a my... DAVID LEVITHAN The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. DAVID LEVITHAN i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not lik... DAVID LEVITHAN You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking br... DAVID LEVITHAN Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with... DAVID LEVITHAN We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough... DAVID LEVITHAN It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trustin... DAVID LEVITHAN i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying y... DAVID LEVITHAN It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thi... DAVID LEVITHAN Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was... DAVID LEVITHAN The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everythi... DAVID LEVITHAN You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. DAVID LEVITHAN livid, adj. Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word chea... DAVID LEVITHAN Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression... DAVID LEVITHAN All through their relationship, Harry was the one in charge, Harry was the one who gave them directi... DAVID LEVITHAN It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you. DAVID LEVITHAN when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.... DAVID LEVITHAN He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the ot... DAVID LEVITHAN I want you to spend the night,” you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If ... DAVID LEVITHAN and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off... DAVID LEVITHAN it's not his body that changes right away. it's something inside. he says h... DAVID LEVITHAN I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to ... DAVID LEVITHAN When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be so... DAVID LEVITHAN The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. Y... DAVID LEVITHAN There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or ... DAVID LEVITHAN I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.” “Who’s Lily?” DAVID LEVITHAN I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not sociall... DAVID LEVITHAN Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such in... DAVID LEVITHAN I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about... DAVID LEVITHAN Kids don't give a shit about clipboards. DAVID LEVITHAN At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family. DAVID LEVITHAN I am trying to make an emotional point. I don't expect you to understand me on that level - you are ... DAVID LEVITHAN I love you, and it's driving me crazy to see you so upset. I want to fix it, and I know I can't. But... DAVID LEVITHAN Dash said, "From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Libraria... DAVID LEVITHAN I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. DAVID LEVITHAN It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, ... DAVID LEVITHAN misgivings , n . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted... DAVID LEVITHAN Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. DAVID LEVITHAN Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast wi... DAVID LEVITHAN I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live i... DAVID LEVITHAN Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I’m going to use her name. Norah, Norah, ... DAVID LEVITHAN Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte... DAVID LEVITHAN Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to... DAVID LEVITHAN corrode , v . I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I... DAVID LEVITHAN You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the ... DAVID LEVITHAN suffuse , v. I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your ha... DAVID LEVITHAN ardent, adj. It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathi... DAVID LEVITHAN They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am w... DAVID LEVITHAN Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn’t mind talkin... DAVID LEVITHAN Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almos... DAVID LEVITHAN Brothers are not like sisters […] They don’t call each other every week. They don’t have secre... DAVID LEVITHAN The quiet times are the ones to hold on to. DAVID LEVITHAN A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite... DAVID LEVITHAN The buildings line the canals like long sentences __ each house a word, each window a letter, each g... DAVID LEVITHAN He drinks, even though drinking always makes him remember rather than forget. DAVID LEVITHAN The laws of gravity vary from city to city. In Venice, the laws state that no matter where you want ... DAVID LEVITHAN When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. DAVID LEVITHAN It’s good to share a life—and it’s good to share minutes and hours, too, Danny thinks. With a ... DAVID LEVITHAN He doesn’t want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be coll... DAVID LEVITHAN It is a terrible thing to not feel missed. DAVID LEVITHAN Danny is amazed that he feels so comfortable. He is amazed that while there are some people you can ... DAVID LEVITHAN You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN If you wanted to reassemble Elijah's afternoon, you could probably do it by stringing together all t... DAVID LEVITHAN It is a dangerous thing with brothers, to think that you could be as strong as them, or as wise as t... DAVID LEVITHAN Brothers are not like sisters. DAVID LEVITHAN It's an old story," Julia says, leaning back in her chair. "Only for me, it's new. I went to school ... DAVID LEVITHAN With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. DAVID LEVITHAN Elijah is overwhelmed by the sheer fact of all the people who have walked over this very spot. As he... DAVID LEVITHAN All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the wei... DAVID LEVITHAN It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavel... DAVID LEVITHAN Being a comfort is itself comforting. Having someone find a place on your shoulder and be able to re... DAVID LEVITHAN He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first st... DAVID LEVITHAN How did my world get so small? DAVID LEVITHAN Don't go for normal," Ari suggests. "Go for happy. Go for what you want it to be instead of settling... DAVID LEVITHAN He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching). DAVID LEVITHAN Although it is such a singular word, there are many variations of alone. There is the alone of an em... DAVID LEVITHAN She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of... DAVID LEVITHAN I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a... DAVID LEVITHAN it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra DAVID LEVITHAN You may not have noticed, but I’m not what you’d call conventionally beautiful. In fact, you mig... DAVID LEVITHAN every morning i pray that the school bus will crash and we'll all die in a fiery wreck. then my mom ... DAVID LEVITHAN he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. DAVID LEVITHAN abyss , n . There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything... DAVID LEVITHAN There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable ... DAVID LEVITHAN There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person ... DAVID LEVITHAN The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation.... DAVID LEVITHAN Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter ... DAVID LEVITHAN The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I... DAVID LEVITHAN I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward. DAVID LEVITHAN If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x... DAVID LEVITHAN My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wr... DAVID LEVITHAN This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of... DAVID LEVITHAN Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war. DAVID LEVITHAN i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someo... DAVID LEVITHAN I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground. DAVID LEVITHAN need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that. DAVID LEVITHAN I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make... DAVID LEVITHAN maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thi... DAVID LEVITHAN this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separat... DAVID LEVITHAN i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profil... DAVID LEVITHAN That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts. DAVID LEVITHAN abstraction , n . Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those n... DAVID LEVITHAN She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything... DAVID LEVITHAN Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself? DAVID LEVITHAN recant , v . I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, beca... DAVID LEVITHAN But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more me... DAVID LEVITHAN These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, an... DAVID LEVITHAN The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whe... DAVID LEVITHAN It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variatio... DAVID LEVITHAN You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can... DAVID LEVITHAN I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn." "My eyes!" Boo... DAVID LEVITHAN He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things. DAVID LEVITHAN That's the dilemma, isn't it? When you're single, there's the sadness and joy of "only me." And when... DAVID LEVITHAN i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. th... DAVID LEVITHAN We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask... DAVID LEVITHAN composure , n . You told me anyway, even though I didn’t want to know. A st... DAVID LEVITHAN I use the chopsticks to outline the biggest heart possible. Then I use the Sweet'N Low packets to fi... DAVID LEVITHAN Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. DAVID LEVITHAN But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. DAVID LEVITHAN The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ... DAVID LEVITHAN I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define mys... DAVID LEVITHAN An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited... DAVID LEVITHAN I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much. DAVID LEVITHAN First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they ... DAVID LEVITHAN I move my feet, turn away from her, try to pretend she's not there, which is the biggest fucking jok... DAVID LEVITHAN Let me give you some free advice. She's a runner for sure- she'll run away every time without saying... DAVID LEVITHAN Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. DAVID LEVITHAN I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. Thi... DAVID LEVITHAN Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? I... DAVID LEVITHAN ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. DAVID LEVITHAN When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to slee... DAVID LEVITHAN I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her s... DAVID LEVITHAN Tikkun olam.” Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. A... DAVID LEVITHAN And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. Wh... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it i... DAVID LEVITHAN But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. DAVID LEVITHAN Fuck this. Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c... DAVID LEVITHAN She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom. DAVID LEVITHAN The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusion... DAVID LEVITHAN It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. DAVID LEVITHAN The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong. DAVID LEVITHAN It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care w... DAVID LEVITHAN My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as... DAVID LEVITHAN All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug. DAVID LEVITHAN Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve a... DAVID LEVITHAN I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistak... DAVID LEVITHAN It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth ... DAVID LEVITHAN I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ... DAVID LEVITHAN tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression... DAVID LEVITHAN Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older... DAVID LEVITHAN I will be the one to leave you. DAVID LEVITHAN I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hoverc... DAVID LEVITHAN It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. DAVID LEVITHAN contiguous , adj . I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne... DAVID LEVITHAN You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong. DAVID LEVITHAN I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... DAVID LEVITHAN exacerbate , v . I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion... DAVID LEVITHAN If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl... DAVID LEVITHAN yearning, n. and adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that ... DAVID LEVITHAN Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? DAVID LEVITHAN And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ... DAVID LEVITHAN ubiquitous , adj . When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�... DAVID LEVITHAN flux , n . The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling... DAVID LEVITHAN breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be... DAVID LEVITHAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ... DAVID LEVITHAN libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor.... DAVID LEVITHAN love , n. I'm not even going to try. DAVID LEVITHAN lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei... DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ... DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all... DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m... DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ... DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ... DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e... DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ... DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers. DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw... DAVID LEVITHAN Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? DAVID LEVITHAN