David Levithan

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.”

“What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?”

“In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”

“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.”

“Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.”

“You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”