1,395 Quotes by David Levithan

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.