Quotes by David Levithan

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing.

People like to say being gay isnt like skin color, isnt anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.But if thats true, why do they always find us?

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens of thousands of people will die before drugs are made and drugs are approved. What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives would have been saved

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasnt anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing youve most wished for can scare you in that way.

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.

So thats what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling.

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I dont fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

We are not taught love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours or love thy neighbor unless they dont make money as you do or love thy neighbor unless they dont 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.

You dont realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So Im not complaining. the more things change,the more they dont stay the same. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldnt be torn if the pages all held together.

Because thats the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

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.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. Its a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesnt really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.