Quotes by David Levithan

There was a time before youbut I cant remember it nowa time before your beauty and Iwere formally introducedIm sure I lived without youbut I dont remember howcant imagine living withoutthese feelings youve produced

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.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hopes disappointment.

Theres no way to know if we would have lasted. Theres no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish Id had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work.

You cant wander around and think the wandering will call them back.

Ive always wanted the happy ending, but now Ill just settle for the ending.

Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.

Thats what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

It’s not easy,” she says, in that voice that mothers have, that mix of unwanted knowledge and small consolation. “Whatever you had—I don’t know exactly what it was, and that’s fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that’s okay. But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didnt want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what youve done to me.

It doesn’t work,” she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. “What you’re feeling right now doesn’t work. You can’t wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don’t want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it’s none of my business. But still.

I’m so sorry,” I continue. And it’s like the last word is a hurdle and I can’t leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.

Thats what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.-David Levithan (Every Day)

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

So what do you have to confess now?I dont know why Im saying any of this, except that is the truth. Im confessing that I dont know if Im ready for this.What is this?Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

The past and the future are complicated. Its the present thats simple.

I realized I would always be missing something. 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. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.

happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time