Quotes by David Levithan

“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...I Wanna Hold Your Hand. First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. Thats what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they cant hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to I Wanna Hold Your Hand. And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”

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

“Singing in the rain. Im singing in the rain. And its such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then youre doing pretty alright in life.”

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

“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I cant 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. Its simply a matter of is and is no longer.”

“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.”

“Maybe thats it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isnt that were supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe were the pieces. [...] Maybe [...] what were supposed to do is come together. Thats how we stop the breaking.”

“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.”

“I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now Im seeing we dont live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. Its an infinite playlist.”