David Levithan Quotes: 43

• I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• It was a mistake,"you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

  Every Day

• 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.

  Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

• This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

  Every Day

• 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.

  Every Day

• It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

  Every Day

• 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.

• Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

  Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

• misgivings, n.Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss,"you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing

  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

  Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

• abyss, n.There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• 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.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• libidinous, adj.I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

  Boy Meets Boy

• You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

  Every You, Every Me

• You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.— Tiny Cooper

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

  Every Day

• breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

  Boy Meets Boy

• he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• Love 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 day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be.

  How They Met, and Other Stories

• Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces."[...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

  The Realm of Possibility

• rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

  The Lover's Dictionary

• 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.

  Boy Meets Boy

• What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

  Love Is the Higher Law

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

  Marly's Ghost

• ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• 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.

  Six Earlier Days

• 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.

  Every Day

• You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• 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.

  The Realm of Possibility

• It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

  Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

• It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

• I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

  Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

• My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

  How They Met, and Other Stories

• In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

  Will Grayson, Will Grayson

• I hope suffering don't exist.

  Dash & Lily's Book of Dares