David Levithan Quotes - Page 11

You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

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 will be the one to leave you.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

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.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

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

I am starting to get tired of relying on words.

That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

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

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.