These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.
David LevithanThe thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.
David LevithanMoments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.
David LevithanAnd I find myself saying, โIt wasnโt really about her.โ And finding itโs true. What do you mean?โ Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasnโt about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.
David LevithanThis is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when itโs just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
David Levithan