David Levithan Quotes

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want to be without you oh no here i go now you know what i feel about you theres no running must have been wrong to doubt you oh there i go no control and i'm fallen so now you know

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.