1,395 Quotes by David Levithan

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

You leave the place you’re from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.

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

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.