David Levithan Quotes - Page 12

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

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

There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.

You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

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't know every you.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.