Kassandra Bird > Kassandra's Quotes

“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.”
― Perry Moore

“I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something....”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“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

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“i have never had anybody talk to me like this.
this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note.
i feel that if my soul could talk it would
talk like this.”
― 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

“I sing louder and he looks right at me, finally getting it, because what I am saying with the rise of my voice is that I know he understands what music is about, he has seen the Lord in it, even if it's not my Lord.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“The frustration is in how pointless the effort was”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“he laughs
but it's a laugh
he has to
think about
first.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I’ve ever felt for anyone, including myself.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“That day, that moment, opened a curiosity of bodies,
shaped us as irrevocably as our first kiss, our first realizations. You go into that moment never really knowing
if the closeness will wear well, if it is something that should
happen. I know she wasn't sure of me, and I wasn't sure of me, either. But we discovered something in the unspoken,
found care in our caring whispers, instinctive.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“there was this one family in Sarasota that was even identical. people couldn't tell who the father was, the mother was, the son was. they were all so happy that it didn't matter who they were. eventually a circus bought them and charged admission for people to see them in their natural happy habitat. spectators would come from all across the state to see them eat dinner together, watch the same channels together, talk to each other at length. People called them freaks not because they were identical, but because they were so
damn
happy.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“with you I feel real.
but then I worry about the me that lies beneath.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed toward that abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“once time is lit, it will burn
whether or not you're breathing it in.
even after smoke becomes air
there is the memory of smoke.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“jed
talks about the foreseeable future and
how little there is that we can foresee.”
― 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.
If I could, I would give him
a lime-green couch, a cabin by a lake,
a fireworks display, an orchard of butterflies, and the certainty that I love him.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“It is unacceptable to sit in your room alone and scream at your life, but it is perfectly acceptable (albeit not exactly normal) to do it with a good friend on the highway, hearing your voice rise to the rush of the window wind and then hearing it be taken away, left behind in your wake.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy