David Levithan
People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.Collection: Couple
For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.Collection: Jesus
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.Collection: Caring
Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.Collection: Getting What You Want
... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?Collection: Book
no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.Collection: Sleep
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.Collection: Fall
With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.Collection: Mean
If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.Collection: World
I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.Collection: Character
It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.Collection: Easy
I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.Collection: Grateful
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.Collection: Appreciation
But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.Collection: People
This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear itCollection: Talking
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.Collection: Hate
It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.Collection: Getting What You Want
I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.Collection: Quality
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.Collection: Pairs
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.Collection: Falling In Love
And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.Collection: Balls
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.Collection: Light
The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.Collection: Breathe
When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.Collection: Understanding
It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.Collection: Goodbye
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.Collection: Comforting
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.Collection: Simple
People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.Collection: Love Is
I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.Collection: Heartbroken
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.Collection: Two
stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.Collection: Strong
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.Collection: Moments
seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slopeCollection: Prayer
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticingCollection: Heart
Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.Collection: Song
A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.Collection: Believe
We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.Collection: Matter
As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.Collection: Lying
I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.Collection: Mother
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.Collection: Romance
I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.Collection: Dream
I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.Collection: Love You
Love is the higher law.Collection: Love Is
Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.Collection: Love
People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.Collection: Games
Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.Collection: Scary
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.Collection: Valentine
To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.Collection: Fall
Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.Collection: Best Love