Nyrae Dawn > Nyrae's Quotes

“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

“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“dreaming's the only way to get anywhere.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

'Smiles are like that. They come and go.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life.
You will miss the taste of Froot Loops.
You will miss the sound of traffic.
You will miss your back against his.
You will miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind.

Be thankful for that.

You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead.

Be thankful for that, too.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“He's on the verge of it--we can tell. He is on the verge of finding that very hard truth--that it will never be complete, or feel complete. This is usually something you only have to learn once--that just like there is no such thing as forever, there is no such thing as total. When you're in the thrall of your first love, this discovery feels like the breaking of all momentum, the undermining of all promise. For the past year, Neil has assumed that love was like a liquid pouring into a vessel, and that the longer you loved, the more full the vessel became, until it was entirely full. The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life wides. And you can't expect your partner's love alone to fill you. There will always be space for other things. And that space isn't empty as much as it's filled by another element. Even though the liquid is easier to see, you have to learn to appreciate the air.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“No matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson