David Levithan
gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.Collection: Wonder
That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.Collection: Missing
I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.Collection: Fall
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.Collection: Reading
Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.Collection: Believe
It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.Collection: Fate
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.Collection: Love
iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?Collection: Zero
It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.Collection: Reason
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.Collection: Hopeless Romantic
tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.Collection: Afterlife
They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.Collection: Love You
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.Collection: Joy
Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.Collection: Girl
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.Collection: Mean
I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.Collection: Hair
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, tooCollection: Aunt
I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.Collection: Missing
There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.Collection: Running
The world, right now, is only us.Collection: World
Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.Collection: Together
I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: First Love
I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.Collection: Dream
Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.Collection: Fall
I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.Collection: Flirting
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.Collection: Moving
This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.Collection: Possibility
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.Collection: Breathing
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.Collection: Focus
This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.Collection: Attachment
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.Collection: Lost
I have become very good at clearing histories.Collection: Very Good
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.Collection: Thinking
Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.Collection: Looks
I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.Collection: Doe
I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.Collection: People
This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.Collection: Traps
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Teenager
All I get is tomorrow.Collection: Tomorrow
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.Collection: Lonely
I only have eyes for you.Collection: Eye
Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.Collection: Want
It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.Collection: Together
She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.Collection: 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.Collection: Mother
If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.Collection: People