David Levithan Quotes

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.

Love means sharing the world with someone else.

You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

We love to work together. Especially when he stands behind me at the microphone and we hug.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

We can do anything you like. Just be with me.

I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

What brings two people together anyway?

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.