David Levithan Quotes

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

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

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

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

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

The words that matter always stay.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

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 . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.