David Levithan Is Quotations

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

Love is the higher law.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.