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 LevithanThere comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the bodyโs urges, the bodyโs needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then itโs in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.
David LevithanI had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
David LevithanIt is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.
David LevithanNeophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?
David LevithanI wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.
David Levithan