I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something. David Levithan More Quotes by David Levithan More Quotes From David Levithan yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. David Levithan beliefperfectdesire Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming. David Levithan carwatchesmoving ...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep. David Levithan should-havenamessleep I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. David Levithan halflove-youmean For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved. David Levithan loverswanted After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. David Levithan unsurelong I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present. David Levithan hotellastsrooms If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently. David Levithan start-the-dayreadinglittles These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours. David Levithan mines stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter. David Levithan strongdoewant What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it. David Levithan phraseslyingpeople Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices. David Levithan choicesfoundwanted The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us. David Levithan imbalancekeys Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say. David Levithan words-you-saywantlooks I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that. David Levithan guarantees-thatgonepeople I am starting to get tired of relying on words. David Levithan startingtired There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it. David Levithan childhoodrunningwater The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness. David Levithan airtwopeople 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. David Levithan falling-in-lovelove-youromantic Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. David Levithan fear-of-being-alonewrong-persondeals
