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How They Met, and Other Stories QUOTES

How They Met, and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

2 " 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. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

3 " I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

4 " Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

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

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

6 " I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole day—a whole week, even—without ever seeing your family. You can maybe say good morning and maybe say good night, but everything in the middle can be left blank. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

7 " I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding. When Jeremy called me up to light one of the thirteen candles on the cake, he said the kindest things, and I knew he meant each and every one. He talked about me teaching him how to ride a bike, how to swim, how to kick an arcade game in just the right place to get a free play. He was remembering the best of me. The way he spoke, I almost recognized who he was talking about. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

8 " It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

9 " Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

10 " He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

11 " It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

12 " To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

13 " The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

14 " I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

15 " There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

16 " I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

17 " Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

18 " That's what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

19 " It’s not easy,” she says, in that voice that mothers have, that mix of unwanted knowledge and small consolation. “Whatever you had—I don’t know exactly what it was, and that’s fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that’s okay. But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

20 " My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories