Quote

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

David Levithan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Stay
Lying
Stills
Still
Sometimes
Love
Placid
Backs
Gaze

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
David Levithan
Image
It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
David Levithan
Image
People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.
David Levithan
Image
I would always wait to take you home.
David Levithan
Image
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
David Levithan
Image
fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?
David Levithan
Image
why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?
David Levithan
Image
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.
David Levithan
Image
It 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 have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
David Levithan
Image
You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
David Levithan
Image
It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
David Levithan
Image
With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
David Levithan
Image
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
David Levithan
Image
it's gonna hurt because it matters.
David Levithan
Image
There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
David Levithan
Image
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
David Levithan
Image
Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
David Levithan
Image
Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
David Levithan
Image
So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
David Levithan
Image
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
David Levithan