1,395 Quotes by David Levithan

Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn’t mind talking to lonely people. He is the Mother Teresa of banter.

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

arduous, adj.Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen.

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

I couldn’t fight the tide, so Idecided to float along.