Marly's Ghost Quotes

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Love was to blame for this. Because when love ends, the cold is what you're left with.
It was all I needed to feel.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“It’s been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.

It is all such a blessing—in the beginning, and the end, and the during.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“I'd been hurt, yes—but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you’re there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you’ve been outside the whole time.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Her breathing was shallow, a seashore slowly being covered with water.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“As the two of us—past self, my present self—hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“There was nothing very cheerful about the cold, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness that the cleverest summer air and brightest summer sun couldn't have compared with. Everyone was in this together.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“David Levithan lives in the best of times and the worst of times, the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness, the epoch of belief and the epoch of incredulity, the season of Light, and the season of Darkness. He has endeavored in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put his readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with him. Whether he shall turn out to the be hero of his own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, time must show.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“Here were shadows on the window blinds of guests assembling, and there a group of pretty girls, hooded and Ugg-booted and all chattering at once, tripping off lightly to some near neighbor’s house where woe would befall the single guy who saw them enter—they were artful witches, and they knew it.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“What’s Valentine’s Day about except the desperate search to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with? It just shows that love has become a marketing campaign, like everything else. You buy into it and lose everything.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost

“The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying.”
― David Levithan, Marly's Ghost