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.”

“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.”

“I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”

“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.”

“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”

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

“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.”

“She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.”

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”

“I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa)”

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

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

“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”

“I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”

“We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home”

“I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”

“I text tiny a minute later.

MADE NEW GAY FRIEND.

And he texts back

PROGRESS!!!”

“You are so close, and I can’t reach you.”

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

“Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses… unless you prefer to die.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“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?”

“Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York”

“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.”

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

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

“What i want is for what i want to actually matter.”

“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.”

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

“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.”