Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
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
Invisible
Instead
Easy
Feel
Invisibility
Feels
Painfully
Would
Ignored
Visible
Entirely
More quotes by David Levithan
Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
David Levithan
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try
David Levithan
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
David Levithan
I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
David Levithan
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
David Levithan
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.
David Levithan
me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
David Levithan
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
David Levithan
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
David Levithan
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
David Levithan
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
David Levithan
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
David Levithan
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
David Levithan
He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.
David Levithan
this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
David Levithan
Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
David Levithan
You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.
David Levithan
I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
David Levithan
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
The words that matter always stay.
David Levithan