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“I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.”
― David Levithan, Every Day