You don’t need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens.
David LevithanThe most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.
David LevithanI wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.
Years into days.
Days into hours.
Hours into minutes.
Minutes into moments.
Moments into possibility.
Here's what breaks us: Even if we know better, we still want everything to be all right
David LevithanShe went on. "There's the drown of things and the swim of things, I guess. I've been going back and forth, back and forth. I feel the weight of it. And this bewilderment - how can something that doesn't have a form, doesn't have a definition, doesn't have words - how can it have such weight? And yet, there's the need to swim."
"Life goes on," I offered.
"Yeah, but you see, 'Life goes on' is as a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
I guess it's a choice we make," she said.
"What's a choice?" I asked.
And she said, "How much of the world we let in.
Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway.
David LevithanWe are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.
David LevithanThere is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly a memory of itself.
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