David Levithan
You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.Collection: Ifs
What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?Collection: Dad
I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skipCollection: Moments
I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.Collection: Hate
They defy gravity, as good books should.Collection: Book
I think they have compatible silences.Collection: Thinking
We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.Collection: Used
Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.Collection: Filled In
this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.Collection: Blue
this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.Collection: Break Up
The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.Collection: Kindness
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.Collection: Meaningful
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.Collection: Book
When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.Collection: Parent
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.Collection: Want
He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.Collection: People
You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.Collection: Being Thankful
This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.Collection: Thinking
But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.Collection: Thinking
After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple areCollection: Simple
Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?Collection: Fighting
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.Collection: Successful
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.Collection: Feelings
But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.Collection: Thinking
If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.Collection: Decision
The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.Collection: Keys
Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to dayCollection: Trying
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruellyCollection: Book
Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.Collection: Wrapping Paper
Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.Collection: Needs
Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.Collection: Games
It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.Collection: Ocean
..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.Collection: Real
Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.Collection: Safe
If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.Collection: Zoom
There is always something new to learn about the person you love.Collection: Something New
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.Collection: Memories
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.Collection: Beautiful
When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.Collection: Sleep
I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.Collection: Darkness
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.Collection: Love You
It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.Collection: Forever
...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.Collection: Pain
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 youCollection: Mean
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?Collection: Heart
I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.Collection: Want
But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.Collection: Age
Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?Collection: Real
Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.Collection: Stunning