Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.
David LevithanIt's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her, or control her. She is yours because you say anything to her whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to. Most of the time this isn't necessary. But the secret smile comes from knowing it's available, even when she's half a world away.
David LevithanIt was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
David LevithanPeople 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. But if you cannot have that regular
presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always.
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen.
David LevithanStichwörter: life love time universal-law-of-attraction
We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
David LevithanStichwörter: life happiness choice contentment
The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.
David LevithanWhat is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
David LevithanStichwörter: happiness love time
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
David LevithanI once told Amanda, my best friend in high school, that I could never be with someone who wasn’t excited by rainstorms. So when the first one came, it was a kind of test. It was one of those sudden storms, and when we left Radio City, we found hundreds of people skittishly sheltered under the overhang.
“What should we do?” I asked.
And you said, “Run!”
So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling.
Stichwörter: love rain lover-s-dictionary ebullient
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