David Levithan Quotes - Page 5

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song.

i am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

It’s hard being in the body of someone you don’t like, because you still have to respect it.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.

We watch, and they surprise us.

We watch, and they surpass us.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.

Quería que el amor lo conquistase todo. Pero el amor no puede conquistarlo todo. No puede hacerlo todo por sí solo.
Ha de confiar en que seamos nosotros quienes conquistamos por él

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling.

Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a message in their poverty of stature. This is what remains, he thinks. It seems a valuable lesson on a day when card catalogs are dying, communications are deleted, and buildings crumble under the weight of society’s expectations.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.