David Levithan Quotes

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

Asking someone to be with us turns out to be an impossibly demanding and therefore pretty mean thing to suggest to anyone we would really want the best for.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

Free love is too expensive.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.