R. > R.'s Quotes

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't
see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her. And if I were to be running the same way, I’d like to think she’d do the same. But maybe her hands would be busy holding the book. Maybe she wouldn’t see me, too intent on looking for Phoebe from the carousel. Or waiting for Holden to hold her, to wrap her in the pages of his arms, to say she was the only one who truly knew him, as I plunged past her, sad to be leaving, and a little happy to be away.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“...i think of friendship in terms of love...”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you.
you don't recognize the shape, offer other names.
you say my time will come, and I hope.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“you say you do not see it.
you say I am too hard on myself.

but I have lived with myself for too many years.
I know exactly how hard I am.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“The 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 Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I 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.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“All the feelings
Are dead inside me
And I want them
To be alive”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“The words just start to fall there. And I feel some satisfaction from that. I've never written just for myself. And I've never written for anyone else. I write for the release of it. For finding out what will be there when I am done.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Maybe it was possible that you could take someone out of their life and drop them in the middle of another place entirely and they could seem like someone completely different. But even if that were the case, she thought, it wasn't really 'they' change—it was just the backdrop, the circumstances, the cast of characters. Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people. Deep down, at the very core, they'd still be the same no matter where they were, wouldn't they?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me

“Maybe they were never meant to have more than just one night. After all, not everything can last. Not everything is supposed to mean something.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me

“It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.”
― David Levithan, Another Day

“What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?”
― David Levithan, Another Day

“You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that’s what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that’s really lonely. But that only happens when we weren’t really listening. It means we weren’t ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare