David Levithan Quotations | Page 5

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

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.

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

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

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

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

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

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.

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.

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.