David Levithan
When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.Collection: Needs
There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.Collection: Life
...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.Collection: Dream
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.Collection: Loneliness
We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.Collection: Dust
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.Collection: Art
You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Lonely
I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Ocean
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: First Love
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.Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Ocean
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Friendship
She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.Collection: Sadness
You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Bad Day
You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.Collection: Lying
She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.Collection: Care
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.yCollection: Wiser You
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.Collection: Bridges
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Two
And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.Collection: Deals
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Life
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, BlahCollection: Get Better
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.Collection: Writing
Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleetingCollection: Vocabulary
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.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Mean
Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.Collection: Laughter
I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.Collection: Believe
We love and we feel and we try and we hope.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Knowing Who You Are
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?Collection: Two
But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.Collection: Sun
I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.Collection: Want
Slowly would be better than not at all.Collection: Would Be
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.Collection: Love
To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.Collection: Giving