detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
David LevithanIt was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
David LevithanBut isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.
David LevithanI preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
David LevithanKindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
David LevithanWhen he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.
David Levithan