Top quotes by David Levithan

My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid. Votes: 16

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed. Votes: 13

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future. Votes: 13

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own. Votes: 12

All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool. Votes: 10

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there. Votes: 7

The dreamy guy at this Starbucks wasn't working the counter. Instead he was working a broom behind it, smiling as he swept. At first I didn't get the smile, but then I realized he was listening to the radio, to Norah Jones sliding her voice around he notes. In his own way, he was dancing alone." Votes: 7

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after. Votes: 6

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. Votes: 6

Ineffable, adj. these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot convoy. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. Votes: 5

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die. Votes: 5

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive. Votes: 5

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives. Votes: 4

People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale. Votes: 4

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try." Votes: 4

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. Votes: 4

Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor." Votes: 3

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board. Votes: 3

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype. Votes: 2

All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug." Votes: 2

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.We watch, and they surprise us.We watch, and they surpass us. Votes: 1

The heart knows nothing except its own mind. Votes: 1

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist. Votes: 1

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself. Votes: 1

the heart knows nothing except its own mind Votes: 1

I'm not good at relationshipsI always manage to find the flawssometimes in othersbut mostly my own.I foretell the ending then go and create the causesave myselfand end up alone Votes: 1

Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you. Votes: 1

X, n.Doesn't it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth of the possibility of our language, and we let it languish. If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x." Votes: 1

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain." Votes: 1

Why won't they leave mealone?don't they realize Ihave atinder heartand apaper bodyand thatany sparkwill turn mestraight to ash?" Votes: 1

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other. Votes: 0

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. Votes: 0

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters. Votes: 0

Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too. Votes: 0

I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun. Votes: 0

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along. Votes: 0

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins. Votes: 0

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. Votes: 0

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break. Votes: 0

What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more? Votes: 0

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths. Votes: 0

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you. Votes: 0

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing. Votes: 0

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid. Votes: 0

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once. Votes: 0

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. Votes: 0

People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale. Votes: 0

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. Votes: 0

me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part. Votes: 0

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity. Votes: 0

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle. Votes: 0

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. Votes: 0

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. Votes: 0

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down. Votes: 0

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change. Votes: 0

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion. Votes: 0

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals. Votes: 0

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures. Votes: 0

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other. Votes: 0

Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game. Votes: 0

I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!! Votes: 0

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it. Votes: 0

me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it. Votes: 0

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions. Votes: 0

next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy. Votes: 0

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all. Votes: 0

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you. Votes: 0

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. Votes: 0

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much. Votes: 0

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. Votes: 0

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me. Votes: 0

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. Votes: 0

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves. Votes: 0

They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all. Votes: 0

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. Votes: 0

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? Votes: 0

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster. Votes: 0

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope. Votes: 0

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. Votes: 0

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. Votes: 0

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. Votes: 0

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this? Votes: 0

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first. Votes: 0

I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation. Votes: 0

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. Votes: 0

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take. Votes: 0

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. Votes: 0

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together. Votes: 0

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love. Votes: 0

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you Votes: 0

A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. Votes: 0

I have never been given these wordsin this way before. This small piece ofgospel, three parts hosanna, two partstestimony, one part lamentation. Votes: 0

If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.") Votes: 0

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside Votes: 0

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls. Votes: 0

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help. Votes: 0

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. Votes: 0

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. Votes: 0

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A Votes: 0

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment. Votes: 0

This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility. Votes: 0

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful for that, too. Votes: 0

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."-David Levithan (Every Day) Votes: 0

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath. Votes: 0

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you. Votes: 0

misgivings, n.Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more. Votes: 0

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. Votes: 0

i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth. Votes: 0

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste. Votes: 0

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath.I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that. Votes: 0

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor. Votes: 0

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage. Votes: 0

it's not his bodythat changesright away.it's somethinginside. he sayshe wants tobe a littleweaker. i don'tunderstand.i say 'thinner?'and he says'no, i wantto be strongerin a differentway.' notbecause of me,but for me. Votes: 0

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. Votes: 0

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile. Votes: 0

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room. Votes: 0

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. Votes: 0

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to. Votes: 0

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. Votes: 0

abyss, n.There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us. Votes: 0

libidinous, adj.I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor. Votes: 0

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love. Votes: 0

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things. Votes: 0

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it. Votes: 0

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. Votes: 0

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf. Votes: 0

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you. Votes: 0

Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Votes: 0

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms. Votes: 0

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days. Votes: 0

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies. Votes: 0

abstraction, n.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. Votes: 0

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. Votes: 0

breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. Votes: 0

The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing Votes: 0

There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be. Votes: 0

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. Votes: 0

It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer. Votes: 0

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath. Votes: 0

If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung. Votes: 0

That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song. Votes: 0

i am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment Votes: 0

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Votes: 0

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that. Votes: 0

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward. Votes: 0

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment. Votes: 0

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. Votes: 0

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own~? Votes: 0

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head. Votes: 0

That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? Votes: 0

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be? Votes: 0

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope Votes: 0

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. Votes: 0

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy. Votes: 0

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own. Votes: 0

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it Votes: 0

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. Votes: 0

luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something. Votes: 0

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups. Votes: 0

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. Votes: 0

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it. Votes: 0

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you. Votes: 0

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting Votes: 0

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. Votes: 0

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me. Votes: 0

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. Votes: 0

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you. Votes: 0

The words that matter always stay. Votes: 0

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not. Votes: 0

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater. Votes: 0

Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. Votes: 0

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. Votes: 0

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. Votes: 0

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be. Votes: 0

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. Votes: 0

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start. Votes: 0

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations. Votes: 0

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. Votes: 0

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived. Votes: 0

You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves. Votes: 0

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on. Votes: 0

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard. Votes: 0

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned 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. Votes: 0

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. Votes: 0

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person. Votes: 0

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin. Votes: 0

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met. Votes: 0

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go. Votes: 0

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are. Votes: 0

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung. Votes: 0

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me. Votes: 0

We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too Votes: 0

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly Votes: 0

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife. Votes: 0

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately. Votes: 0

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you. Votes: 0

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel. Votes: 0

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. Votes: 0

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace. Votes: 0

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. Votes: 0

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. Votes: 0

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts. Votes: 0

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is. Votes: 0

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both. Votes: 0

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. Votes: 0

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive. Votes: 0

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. Votes: 0

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one. Votes: 0

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it. Votes: 0

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live? Votes: 0

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. Votes: 0

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable. Votes: 0

You don't know, but I'm noticing. Votes: 0

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening. Votes: 0

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful. Votes: 0

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible. Votes: 0

Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was. Votes: 0

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this. Votes: 0

You are so close, and I can’t reach you. Votes: 0

No funny stuff in here tonight, you understand?” Dash said, “I assure you I could not contemplate any of your so-called funny stuff seeing as how I have no idea why I’m even here.” Mark scoffed. “You bookish little pervert.” “Thank you, sir!” Dash said brightly. Votes: 0

Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music. Votes: 0

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough. Votes: 0

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to. Votes: 0

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage. Votes: 0

You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said. Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell. Votes: 0

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. Votes: 0

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home Votes: 0

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can. Votes: 0

Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed. Votes: 0

That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot. Votes: 0

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. Votes: 0

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next. Votes: 0

She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem. Votes: 0

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee. Votes: 0

There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits. Votes: 0

it's gonna hurt because it matters. Votes: 0

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson. Votes: 0

Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. Votes: 0

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress. Votes: 0

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words. Votes: 0

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense. Votes: 0

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away. Votes: 0

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him. Votes: 0

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke. Votes: 0

And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it. Votes: 0

there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot Votes: 0

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. Votes: 0

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power. Votes: 0

elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen. Votes: 0

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad. Votes: 0

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part. Votes: 0

The secret to living long is to have something to live for. Votes: 0

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. Votes: 0

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say. Votes: 0

I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that. Votes: 0

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it. Votes: 0

The world, right now, is only us. Votes: 0

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness. Votes: 0

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them. Votes: 0

We love and we feel and we try and we hope. Votes: 0

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated. Votes: 0

Love me less, but love me for a long time Votes: 0

Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming. Votes: 0

...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep. Votes: 0

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. Votes: 0

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved. Votes: 0

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging. Votes: 0

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started Votes: 0

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along. Votes: 0

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing. Votes: 0

I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple. Votes: 0

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours. Votes: 0

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language. Votes: 0

I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely. Votes: 0

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. Votes: 0

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much. Votes: 0

I'm not in love with you. Votes: 0

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on. Votes: 0

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. Votes: 0

I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way. Votes: 0

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten. Votes: 0

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs. Votes: 0

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't. Votes: 0

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real. Votes: 0

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun. Votes: 0

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us. Votes: 0

It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place. Votes: 0

By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me. Votes: 0

healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go. Votes: 0

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF. Votes: 0

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. Votes: 0

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time. Votes: 0

There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else. Votes: 0

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know? Votes: 0

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. Votes: 0

The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time. Votes: 0

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle. Votes: 0

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones. Votes: 0

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. Votes: 0

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. Votes: 0

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine! Votes: 0

We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him. Votes: 0

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could? Votes: 0

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects. Votes: 0

There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face. Votes: 0

But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it. Votes: 0

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66) Votes: 0

I hope suffering don't exist. Votes: 0

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home. Votes: 0

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models. Votes: 0

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust. Votes: 0

We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back. Votes: 0

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. Votes: 0

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic. Votes: 0

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses. Votes: 0

This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality. Votes: 0

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. Votes: 0

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together? Votes: 0

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur. Votes: 0

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me. Votes: 0

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. Votes: 0

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this. Votes: 0

When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person. Votes: 0

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y Votes: 0

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there? Votes: 0

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us. Votes: 0

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime. Votes: 0

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine. Votes: 0

Slowly would be better than not at all. Votes: 0

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all Votes: 0

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther Votes: 0

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence. Votes: 0

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way. Votes: 0

I think they have compatible silences. Votes: 0

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting. Votes: 0

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident. Votes: 0

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant. Votes: 0

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows. Votes: 0

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay. Votes: 0

aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to. Votes: 0

The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that. Votes: 0

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. Votes: 0

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love is the higher law. Votes: 0

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll! Votes: 0

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it. Votes: 0

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me. Votes: 0

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. Votes: 0

Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption. Votes: 0

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage. Votes: 0

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. Votes: 0

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. Votes: 0

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it. Votes: 0

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything. Votes: 0

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real? Votes: 0

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else? Votes: 0

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising. Votes: 0

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in. Votes: 0

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life. Votes: 0

With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it. Votes: 0

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself. Votes: 0

i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this. Votes: 0

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable. Votes: 0

I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture. Votes: 0

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test. Votes: 0

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it. Votes: 0

I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence. Votes: 0

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day Votes: 0

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God... Votes: 0

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving Votes: 0

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever. Votes: 0

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. Votes: 0

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it. Votes: 0

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. Votes: 0

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living. Votes: 0

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will. Votes: 0

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way. Votes: 0

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever. Votes: 0

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper. Votes: 0

If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible. Votes: 0

I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge. Votes: 0

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task. Votes: 0

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it. Votes: 0

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his. Votes: 0

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside. Votes: 0

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. Votes: 0

Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this. Votes: 0

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable. Votes: 0

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor. Votes: 0

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more. Votes: 0

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love. Votes: 0

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health. Votes: 0

He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body. Votes: 0

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption. Votes: 0

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it. Votes: 0

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe. Votes: 0

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. Votes: 0

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too. Votes: 0

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance. Votes: 0

I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them. Votes: 0

As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake. Votes: 0

...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give. Votes: 0

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation Votes: 0

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime? Votes: 0

"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you. Votes: 0

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath. Votes: 0

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. Votes: 0

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other. Votes: 0

I will be the one to leave you. Votes: 0

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it. Votes: 0

I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust. Votes: 0

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more. Votes: 0

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath. Votes: 0

But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go. Votes: 0

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. Votes: 0

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you. Votes: 0

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others. Votes: 0

The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign. Votes: 0

I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it. Votes: 0

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right. Votes: 0

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say. Votes: 0

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other. Votes: 0

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person. Votes: 0

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. Votes: 0

What i want is for what i want to actually matter. Votes: 0

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy Votes: 0

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky. Votes: 0

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain. Votes: 0

He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go. Votes: 0

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room. Votes: 0

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe. Votes: 0

I am here because of love. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark. Votes: 0

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you. Votes: 0

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him. Votes: 0

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears. Votes: 0

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her. Votes: 0

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer. Votes: 0

We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things. Votes: 0

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next. Votes: 0

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty. Votes: 0

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too. Votes: 0

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves. Votes: 0

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either. Votes: 0

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. Votes: 0

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. Votes: 0

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. Votes: 0

I am starting to get tired of relying on words. Votes: 0

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Votes: 0

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there. Votes: 0

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. Votes: 0

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain. Votes: 0

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing. Votes: 0

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. Votes: 0

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother. Votes: 0

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are Votes: 0

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation. Votes: 0

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them. Votes: 0

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. Votes: 0

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. Votes: 0

You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty. Votes: 0

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers. Votes: 0

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped. Votes: 0

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully. Votes: 0

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net. Votes: 0

There is always something new to learn about the person you love. Votes: 0

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is. Votes: 0

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect? Votes: 0

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be. Votes: 0

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to. Votes: 0

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key. Votes: 0

You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper Votes: 0

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way. Votes: 0

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding. Votes: 0

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said. Votes: 0

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. Votes: 0

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too. Votes: 0

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that. Votes: 0

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint. Votes: 0

And who am I to blow against the wind? Votes: 0

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. Votes: 0

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right. Votes: 0

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact. Votes: 0

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire? Votes: 0

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode. Votes: 0

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. Votes: 0

I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky - whoa. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends. Votes: 0

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies... Votes: 0

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus. Votes: 0

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing Votes: 0

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. Votes: 0

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time. Votes: 0

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one. Votes: 0

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with. Votes: 0

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely. Votes: 0

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York Votes: 0

And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice. Votes: 0

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words. Votes: 0

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair. Votes: 0

You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head. Votes: 0

You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it. Votes: 0

I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all. Votes: 0

Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts. Votes: 0

apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you. Votes: 0

for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall. Votes: 0

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own. Votes: 0

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. Votes: 0

Its a fine line between love and stalking. Votes: 0

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share. Votes: 0

incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop. Votes: 0

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? Votes: 0

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight. Votes: 0

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet. Votes: 0

They defy gravity, as good books should. Votes: 0

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me. Votes: 0

You will always be my always. Votes: 0

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is. Votes: 0

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. Votes: 0

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way? Votes: 0

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. Votes: 0

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah Votes: 0

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time. Votes: 0

I want this world small enough for the two of us I want you to think of me that way I want this world to crash us into marvelous I want you to kiss me and say: Votes: 0

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. Votes: 0

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream. Votes: 0

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away. Votes: 0

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance. Votes: 0

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. Votes: 0

this might be the happy ending without the ending Votes: 0

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about. Votes: 0

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel. Votes: 0

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates. Votes: 0

it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck. Votes: 0

instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up. Votes: 0

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world. Votes: 0

maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling. Votes: 0

It’s like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait... Votes: 0

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching). Votes: 0

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am. Votes: 0

I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want. Votes: 0

Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support. Votes: 0

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love. Votes: 0

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that. Votes: 0

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. Votes: 0

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground. Votes: 0

it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. Votes: 0

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. Votes: 0

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. Votes: 0

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment. Votes: 0

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. Votes: 0

Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing. Votes: 0

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room. Votes: 0

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something. Votes: 0

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another. Votes: 0

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that. Votes: 0

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do. Votes: 0

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. Votes: 0

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. Votes: 0

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. Votes: 0

It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us. Votes: 0

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. Votes: 0

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. Votes: 0

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom? Votes: 0

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it. Votes: 0

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. Votes: 0

A sound waiting to be a word. Votes: 0

Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment. Votes: 0

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed. Votes: 0

All I get is tomorrow. Votes: 0

I have become very good at clearing histories. Votes: 0

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well. Votes: 0

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line. Votes: 0

I only have eyes for you. Votes: 0

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love. Votes: 0

It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together. Votes: 0

Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long? Votes: 0

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky. Votes: 0

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love. Votes: 0

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway. Votes: 0

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. Votes: 0

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility. Votes: 0

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music. Votes: 0

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing. Votes: 0

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right. Votes: 0

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for. Votes: 0

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak. Votes: 0

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave. Votes: 0

When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch. Votes: 0

I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present. Votes: 0

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned. Votes: 0

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently. Votes: 0

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity. Votes: 0

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. Votes: 0

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late. Votes: 0

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices. Votes: 0

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours. Votes: 0

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head. Votes: 0

...i think of friendship in terms of love... Votes: 0

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. Votes: 0

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else. Votes: 0

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more. Votes: 0

If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance. Votes: 0

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart. Votes: 0

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love. Votes: 0

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt. Votes: 0

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. Votes: 0

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice? Votes: 0

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed. Votes: 0

Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe. Votes: 0

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would always wait to take you home. Votes: 0

And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix. Votes: 0

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better. Votes: 0

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. Votes: 0

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt. Votes: 0

People are always separable. Votes: 0

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part. Votes: 0

Fate has a strange way of making plans. Votes: 0

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same. Votes: 0

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be. Votes: 0

That lasting things do, in fact, last. Votes: 0

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something. Votes: 0

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree. Votes: 0

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else. Votes: 0

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? Votes: 0

We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else. Votes: 0

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Votes: 0

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance. Votes: 0

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. Votes: 0

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does. Votes: 0

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it. Votes: 0