It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything. David Levithan More Quotes by David Levithan More Quotes From David Levithan elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen. David Levithan kissingsideslittles exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. David Levithan parenthomebelieve hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power. David Levithan hubriskindfeels scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. David Levithan coffeetwothinking and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help. David Levithan love-youhelpingneeds there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot David Levithan vocabularynamesfeelings And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it. David Levithan kidsfallthinking teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke. David Levithan teenagerteacherschool We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him. David Levithan world-loveeyestupid My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away. David Levithan pridehurttogether Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. David Levithan life-is Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures. David Levithan fracturefractals 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 tombsforgottenstories I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way. David Levithan missinglove-youlying i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. David Levithan paradiseriversorder I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on. David Levithan unimportant-thingsablegoes-on It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this? David Levithan tabloidsnewscompassion Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. David Levithan memorialcitiesgone The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. David Levithan tickclock Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite. David Levithan distanceinfinitytwo
