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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Inspirational
David Levithan
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Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Life, Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Love, Relationships
David Levithan
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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
Topic: Life
David Levithan
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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
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i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
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Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
From Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Topic: Love
David Levithan
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libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
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Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
Topic: Death
David Levithan
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What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Love
David Levithan
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...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
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It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Life, Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Inspirational
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Life, Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Love, Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
Topic: Life
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
From Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
Topic: Death
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Life, Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Inspirational
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Life, Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
From How They Met, and Other Stories
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Love, Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
From Marly's Ghost
Topic: Life
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.
From Another Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
From Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
From Every Day
Topic: Relationships
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Funny
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
From Love Is the Higher Law
Topic: Death
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
From Every Day
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Topic: Love
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
From Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
From Every Day
Topic: Happiness
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him
From Boy Meets Boy
Topic: Hope
David Levithan
NOT YET RATED▼
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
From The Lover's Dictionary
Topic: Life, Love
David Levithan
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