I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain. David Levithan More Quotes by David Levithan More Quotes From David Levithan With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus. David Levithan fetusfortythree anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. David Levithan anchors If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start. David Levithan good-placelovablewant everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home. David Levithan mineshomeschool Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones. David Levithan nextbelievenegative I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle. David Levithan alcoholtryingtalking 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. David Levithan gamesplaymemories I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. David Levithan would-betogetherbook Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know? David Levithan fightingnamesneeds There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else. David Levithan selfworrylost In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time. David Levithan seniorjobsbelieve me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. David Levithan tiedknows arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. David Levithan lapseswould-bemistake And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events. David Levithan luckdoubttogether placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. David Levithan placidsometimeslying apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you. David Levithan clothesshapesmind I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with. David Levithan realizingstylepersonality Because that's 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. David Levithan meanfallthinking What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing David Levithan differenceslonelyknowing Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire? David Levithan purethrilldesire
