David Levithan Quotes

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.

I am very practical. It's not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

We wear our problems diffrently

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes. . . sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.