“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel. ”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“Its a fine line between love and stalking.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“Tony:...but you need something to do about Noah.
Paul: I know, I know. The only problem being that (a) he thinks I'm getting back with my ex-boyfriend, (b) he thinks I'll only hurt him, because (c) I've already hurt him and (d) someone else has already hurt him, which means that I'm hurting him even more. So (e) he doesn't trust me, and in all fairness, (g) every time I see him, I (h) want everything to be right again and I (i) want to kiss him madly. This means that (j) my feelings aren't going away anytime soon, but (k) his feelings don't look likely to budge, either. So either (l) I'm out of luck, (m) I'm out of hope, or (n) there's a way to make it up to him that I'm not thinking of. I could (o) beg, (p) plead, (q) grovel, or (r) give up. But, in order to do that, I would have to sacrifice my (s) pride, (t) reputation, and (u) self-respect, even though (v) I have very little of them left and (w) it probably wouldn't work anyway. As a result, I am (x) lost, (y) clue-free, and (z) wondering if you have any idea whatsoever what I should do.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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?”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“I think they have compatible silences.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“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.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”
― David Levithan, quote from Boy Meets Boy
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“The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Confessions of a Crap Artist
“I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, quote from Leonardo's Notebooks
“The price was physical toll. Money does little good back here. It could not buy the fit feeling that surged through my arms and shoulders. It could not buy the feeling of accomplishment. I had been my own tour guide, and my own power had been my transportation. This great big country was my playground, and I could afford the price it demanded.”
― quote from One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read.”
― Paul Collins, quote from Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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