David Levithan Quotes - Page 2

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 had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

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, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.