David Levithan Quotes

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.