David Levithan Quotes

.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win...

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.

Fuck this.Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't...

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else w...

I want you to spend the night, you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, Let’s have sex, or Let’s go to my place, or even I really want you, I’m not sure we would...

I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault.She did it.She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar.Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all...

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

I showed him the Post-it. You see They’re from Lily.Who’s Lily?Some girl.Ooh... a girl!Boomer, we’re not in third grade anymore. You don’t say, ‘Ooh... a girl!’What? You fucking her?Okay, Boomer, you’...

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our...

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believenone of them would have felt this right. All I want is you...

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expec...

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves?It's over whe...

Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.