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“I’m fine,” is the reply he gives. I think I am surviving, in all the wrong ways, is the reply he thinks.”
― Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us

“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

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This is the trap of having something to live for:
Everything else seems lifeless.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“The world, right now, is only us.”
― David Levithan, Every Day