David Levithan Quotes - Page 22

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

All I get is tomorrow.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.