Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.
David Levithan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Lose
Game
Loses
Games
May
Going
Please
More quotes by David Levithan
When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
David Levithan
dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.
David Levithan
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
David Levithan
simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
David Levithan
lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
David Levithan
This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
David Levithan
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
Fate has a strange way of making plans.
David Levithan
What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
David Levithan
Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
David Levithan
Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.
David Levithan
Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.
David Levithan
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
David Levithan
The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
David Levithan
People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.
David Levithan
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
David Levithan
How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
David Levithan
willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started
David Levithan
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
David Levithan
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