I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
David LevithanIf you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.
David LevithanShe stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
David Levithan...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
David LevithanJust because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
David LevithanIt 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-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
David Levithan