David Levithan

“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 hav...”

“breathtaking, adj. Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”

“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run...”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

“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, i...”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.”

“Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my l...”

“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”

“rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.”

“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...”

“now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not lik...”

“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...”

“It’s 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.”

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

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

“It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.”