Quotes by David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

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Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we did — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her f — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certa — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied tog — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. There is nothing worse than a rui — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wis — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending. — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
That's what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated ball — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
It’s not easy,” she says, in that voice that mothers have, that mix of unwanted knowledge and small consolation. “Whatev — David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories