David Levithan Quotes

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would le...

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resent...

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

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.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what...

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones,...

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

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

We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn g...

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

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

I can’t help thinking that ‘getting a life’ is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic win...

I think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four...