Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
David LevithanI don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
David LevithanThat lasting things do, in fact, last.
David LevithanYou never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
David LevithanI never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.
David LevithanThe key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.
David LevithanEven if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
David LevithanFrom behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.
David LevithanBy the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.
David Levithanacronym, n.
I remember the first time you signed an email with SWAK. I didn’t know what it meant. It sounded violent, like a slap connecting. SWAK! Batman knocking down the Riddler. SWAK! Cries of “Liar! Liar!” Tears. SWAK! So I wrote back: SWAK? And the next time you wrote, ten minutes later, you explained.
I loved the ridiculous image I got from that, of you leaning over your laptop, touching your lips gently to the screen, sealing your words to me before turning them into electricity. Now every time you SWAK me, the echo of that electricity remains.
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