How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

David Levithan

Categorized in : Stories Forgotten Tombs

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

memories life people

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

track hurt thinking

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

keys real kids

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

afar and-love watches

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

peaceful silence darkness

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when i... by David Levithan

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

amplify distance magic

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets y... by David Levithan

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

should needs

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime? by David Levithan

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

coffee

"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

gone night sex

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to rev... by David Levithan

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

lilies honesty mean

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

kissing running love

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'... by David Levithan

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

missing said relationship

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.

i-realized realizing sex

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

stories mind want

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

my-best-friend differences play

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] 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.

teenage girl white

Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

feelings hands years

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.

groups matter character

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

real humanity character

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.

obsessed musical scary