Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
David LevithanSeeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.
David LevithanWhile nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.
David LevithanEven though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
David LevithanThis isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.
David LevithanOne of the towers has fallen. When it's our turn to leave, it's like something in me is finally willing to listen, and suddenly I understand what it means. The tower doesn't exist anymore. Something I've seen my entire life - something so much larger than my entire life - is gone. That is my first reaction. And then I think about all the people inside. There must have been people inside.
David LevithanAt one point they'd repeated everything enough, and I wanted to tell them to stop showing the planes hitting the tower. We didn't need to see it again. And yet I didn't turn it off. Because I was hanging on every minute, wanting to be there when whatever was going to happen next actually happened.
David LevithanI know immediately that this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal and the historic are converging. I know people will ask, 'Where were you when you first heard?
David LevithanIn small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?
David LevithanBreathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
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