Are We There Yet David Levithan Quotes & Sayings

It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel. — David Levithan

People in Ohio are late all the time. — David Levithan

Maura: is there anything you want to tell me?
me: yeah. I want to tell you that my third nipple is lactating and my butt cheeks are threatening to unionize. what do you think I should do about it?
maura: I feel you're not telling me something. — David Levithan

But now it's the museum backdrop for the exhibition of grief. — David Levithan

You say that someday your prince will come. More than anything, you want him to reply, "But what if your prince is right under your nose?" Instead he says, "Well, as long as he's mot one of those deposed princes ... "
You wish he weren't such a prince. You wish he were a frog. — David Levithan

Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this. — David Levithan

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. — David Levithan

You will always be my always", he assured me. — David Levithan

How did you know it was me?' I have to ask.
'The way you looked at me,' she says, 'It couldn't have been anyone else. — David Levithan

How could this happen? some of our parents asked us near the end. We knew what they were really asking, and some of us found the grace to say, It was nothing you did. — David Levithan

How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to. — David Levithan

So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, "Hey, that could be us in ten years."
And Hugo said, "Or ten months."
And Austin said, "Or ten days."
And Hugo said, "Or ten minutes."
And Austin said, "Or ten seconds."
Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day. — David Levithan

the history is there, but it's not visible. — David Levithan

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong. — David Levithan

Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. — David Levithan

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. — David Levithan

Brothers are not like sisters. — David Levithan

Fuck, I loved her then. And 'then' is blurring into 'now'. I'm thinking 'why not?' I'm thinking 'we're still the same people. — David Levithan

Limbo is the state where there are only questions. That was as far as I'd gotten. — David Levithan

There's been a lot of things said about me
Since that awful day
I'm not the person that I used to be
And that I'll never be the same
That's true - no doubt
But I know more now what life is about
I laugh louder
Cry harder
Take less time to make up my mind
and I
Think smarter
Go slower
I know what I want
And what I don't
I'll be better than I've ever been — David Levithan

I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that. — David Levithan

Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin, perfect hairdos, spotless clothes. These are people who went to the bathroom in the street, for God's sake. There's no way they looked like this. But that's how we're going to remember them. Our alabaster past. When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened - how we all became so imperfect. — Julia David Levithan

I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility. — David Levithan

The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. — David Levithan

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home — David Levithan

If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. — David Levithan

I worry
about you
and i tell him
don't
and he says
that's exactly
why — David Levithan

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

The world, right now, is only us. — David Levithan

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore. — David Levithan

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. — David Levithan

right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse
right here, I have been turned into nothing
right now, I am negated — David Levithan

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel. — David Levithan

Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me. — David Levithan

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

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. — David Levithan

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist — Rachel Cohn

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter.
You up? he asks.
And the reply comes instantly:
For anything. — David Levithan