David Levithan You Quotations

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.

They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.

Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

I'm not in love with you.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

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.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

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?

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.