"I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"Caroline's about to say something really harsh, but suddenly Hunter and Dev launch into a fucking Green Day cover, and we're all seven years old again and dancing like we spit out the Ritalin while Mom wasn't looking."
— David Levithan (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)

"To get something you must give something away.
To hold something you must give something away.
To love something you must give something away."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"Here's what I know about the realm of possibility-it is always expanding. It is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed inpossible. From the airplane overheadto the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for usto see sometimes, we all exists within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world's devising. And yet, everyday we each do so many things that were once impossible to us."
— David Levithan (The Realm Of Possiblity

" "Maybe that's it," I say gently. "With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe *we're* the pieces." ... "Maybe," I say, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking." "
— David Levithan (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)

"It 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 date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be."
— David Levithan

"We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen."
— David Levithan

"Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads."
— David Levithan

"You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try"
— David Levithan (How They Met, and Other Stories)

"To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions."
— David Levithan

"“There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”
Ely in Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
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— Rachel Cohn and David Levithan