Quotes By Author: David Levithan
“Indelible, adj.That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.”
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“In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”
“I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.”
“I hope suffering don’t exist.”
“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
“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.”
“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That’s all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”
“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”
“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”
“…because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you’re doing pretty alright in life.”
“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”
“It is much harder to lie to someone’s face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone’s face.”
“You know there’s no such thing as a complete lie. There’s always some truth in there.”
“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”