David Levithan Quotes - Page 4

Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.

Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.

If you’re not able to laugh inside a sex shop,
then you probably shouldn’t be there.
I mean, they don’t call it fooling around for nothing.

Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations.

A Cue from Nature

Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That’s what unlonely is like

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

It might feel like the end of the world-
but it's the beginning of your art.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened - how we all became so imperfect.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath.
I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.