We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home David Levithan More Quotes by David Levithan More Quotes From David Levithan There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there? David Levithan liberty important book Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse. David Levithan left-alone anger feelings The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath. David Levithan different perfect feels Love is the higher law. David Levithan higher-law law love-is Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer. David Levithan space doe giving I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more. David Levithan highs-and-lows mother lows I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. David Levithan admiration nostalgia appreciation But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other. David Levithan feelings people way I will be the one to leave you. David Levithan This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it David Levithan voice sound talking If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it. David Levithan hate ifs knows It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. David Levithan inability focus race It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. David Levithan getting-what-you-want easier want I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it. David Levithan quality able steps There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs. David Levithan pairs assumption lovers It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her. David Levithan when-you-love-someone falling-in-love thinking And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't. David Levithan shrinks balls feels I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real. David Levithan real knows want Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you. David Levithan eye hair love I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room. David Levithan different light air
