Quotes by David Levithan

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

“The houses have been condemned on Memory LaneIm tired of this struggle that leaves everything the sameIve tried so hard to make it workthat Im dying insideWell, you can take my pastBut you cant hav...”

“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.”

“I hate the phrase 'more than friends'," Joni told me one night not long ago. "It's such nonsense. When I'm going out with someone, we're not 'more than friends' - most of the time, we're not even f...”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In t...”

“Do you wonder why we wander? Cal had asked.It was the night of the first snow; you could hear the branches bending and the iciclesfalling outside the window, beyond the wall.They were warmth togeth...”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.”

“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.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people weve never met.”

“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 funeralthese big h...”

“In my kind of falling, theres no landing. Theres only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time youre falling, its the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel yo...”

“I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God ...”

“Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.”

“The heart knows nothing except its own mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“the heart knows nothing except its own mind”