Frases de David Levithan

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“Não tenho muito a perder.
Mas, sem dúvida, vai parecer que perdi tudo.”

“O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.”

“Quando te vi hoje, não sabia que estava te esperando até você aparecer. E então toda aquela espera tomou conta de mim em um segundo.”

“É isso que o amor faz: que você queira reescrever o mundo. Que você queira escolher os personagens, construir o cenário, dirigir o roteiro. A pessoa que você ama senta de frente para você, e você quer fazer tudo que estiver ao alcance para tornar isso possível, infinitamente possível. E quando são apenas vocês dois a sós numa sala, você pode fingir que é assim que as coisas são, que é assim que serão”

“Sei disso há algum tempo, mas você pode saber de algo durante anos sem que isso realmente o atinja.”

“Seria fácil demais dizer que me sinto invisível. Em vez disso, me sinto dolorosamente visível e totalmente ignorado. As pessoas falam com ela, mas é como se estivessem do lado de fora de uma casa, falando através das paredes. Ela tem amigos, mas são pessoas com quem passa o tempo, não com quem o divide.”

“Nós vamos encontrar um jeito - respondo.
- Isso não é uma resposta. É uma esperança.
- A esperança nos trouxe até aqui. Não as respostas.”

“Queria que o amor conquistasse tudo. Mas o amor não conquista tudo. Ele não pode fazer nada sozinho. Ele depende de nós para conquistar em seu nome.”

“Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.”

“Observar o mundo de cima, e ficar a sós comigo mesmo. Aquilo, descobri, era do que eu precisava.”

“Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E eu quero que minha vida seja real.”

“Foi um erro ", disse você. Mas o mais cruel era que parecia que o erro era meu, ao confiar em você.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”

“People are always separable.”

“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.”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

“I would always wait to take you home.”

“.

At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”

“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

“We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are.”

“(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)”

“There is the sudden. There is the eventual.
And in between, there is the living.

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.”

“In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.”

“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”