Quote

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

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
Paired
Dilemma
Thats
Sadness
Single
Joy

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
David Levithan
Image
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
David Levithan
Image
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
David Levithan
Image
So what else can I tell you? I asked. I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.
David Levithan
Image
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
Image
and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
David Levithan
Image
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
David Levithan
Image
She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.
David Levithan
Image
They don’t have silences together they have noise. Mostly his.
David Levithan
Image
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
David Levithan
Image
Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.
David Levithan
Image
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
David Levithan
Image
I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
David Levithan
Image
It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
David Levithan
Image
breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
David Levithan
Image
I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.
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
Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
David Levithan
Image
When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
David Levithan
Image
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
David Levithan