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'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”

“this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.”

“It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.”

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”

“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing”

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

“These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.”

“gravity, n.

I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”

“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.”

“Make more than dust.”