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.”

“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”

“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.”

“Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.”

“All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”

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

“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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?”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“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.”

“I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.”

“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”

“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”

“Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

“Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.”

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”

“The world, right now, is only us.”

“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

“I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”

“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.”