David Levithan Quotes - Page 3

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

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 will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned 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 I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

You will always be my always.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.