Hold Me Closer Quotes

“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don't Dance” in High School Musical 2.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You’re the playwright. You’re the composer.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“It’s always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“If act one in life is about finding yourself, then act two is about finding everyone else.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“LYNDA: Don’t get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.
TINY: People are halves?
LYNDA: They’re not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?
TINY: Agreed!”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be nut hadn't known how to find.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.

It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“It might feel like the end of the world--
but it's the beginning of your art.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In the stories you tell and the stories you see. Find passion everywhere, and share it widely. Don't narrow it down to one thin line.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“You look about as tiny as Idina Menzel’s voice.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“More than anything else, we want to fit into our own families.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Please tell me this pity party ends early. Or at least serves cake.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“you've gotta learn to love the falling, because it's all about falling.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Don’t get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They’re not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“A shiver I've never felt.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“That’s the thing about life and love—every time you take another look at them, there’s something else that can be revised.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“More because of your disappointing love life and the behavior that results from it. I have seen your manic LOLs, and I’m not laughing. No. This is an intervention. Put the phone down.

STEP AWAY FROM THE PHONE! PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND STEP AWAY FROM THE PHONE!”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage. I haven’t been ready for a lot of things, but from early on, I was ready for this.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“If I didn’t have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“My mother sewed my name into all my underwear. But, really, it was another boy’s name I was ready to sew into my heart.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Ex-boyfriend #5 appears onstage. Like many of the boys Tiny’s attracted to, he’s an actor. (If that last sentence raised a big red flag for you, that means you’ve tried to date an actor.)”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story