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141 " In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious. "
― David Levithan , Every Day (Every Day, #1)
142 " No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know. "
― David Levithan , Ten Things I Hate about You
143 " We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything. "
― David Levithan , Boy Meets Boy
144 " Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie. "
― David Levithan , Two Boys Kissing
145 " As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything. "
146 " I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?I can't tell.The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not. "
147 " We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—”“Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?”“Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.”“Nobody does,” I assure him. "
148 " I'll see you soon. I promise.”And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.For a moment. "
― David Levithan , Are We There Yet?
149 " It's up to you, not fate. "
― David Levithan , Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Dash & Lily, #1)
150 " Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all. "
― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories
151 " the answer is to just let gothe betrayal is to the pastthe cocoon dangles emptythe desire outlasts the objectthe effort lingersthe frustration is in how pointless the effort wasthe ghost does not make itself transparentthe heart knows nothing except its own mindthe ideas are not enoughthe jealousy is always therethe killing blow is sometimes the softestthe life you lead can be detouredthe moment you know cannot be taken backthe new you will try to bury the old methe opportunity has passedthe past is inopportunethe questions all grow from whythe reality will always be contendedthe sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might takethe ugly words cannot be erased, only discreditedthe versions are never the samethe wonder is that we make it throughthe x is the unknown variablethe yesterday cannot be repeatedthe zenith is the point when you look down and realize you’re no longer below "
― David Levithan , The Realm of Possibility
152 " The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect "
153 " One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you "
― David Levithan , Another Day (Every Day, #2)
154 " She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of. "
155 " How did my world get so small? "
156 " Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel. "
157 " Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way. "
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158 " People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are the memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left. "
― David Levithan , Invisibility
159 " He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for. "
160 " But once upon a time - that would be our time - a telephone cord seemed like nothing less than a lifeline.It was your attachment to the outside world and, even more than that, your attachment to the people you loved, or wanted to love, or tried to love. Everything about it was fitting - the way it curled in on itself, the way it got so easily tangled, the way you could pull it only so far before it kept you in place.Twisted and knotted and essential. "