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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. ”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are
azure
indigo
cerulean
cobalt
periwinkle
and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky.
He brings the sun.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“What I learned

The well-documented difference
Between alone and lonely
The comfort of knowing”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“...i think of friendship in terms of love...”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words written down, not the paper.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other often, but can make each other effortlessly happy.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“You ask me some questions
And I give you some answers
But nothing that would make you understand.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“we are quiet tonight, but in the same
silence”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“All the feelings
Are dead inside me
And I want them
To be alive”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“i feel that if my soul could talk it would
talk like this”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Soul Mates

I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
― Lang Leav