David Levithan Quotes

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I think there are some things that just cannot be fixed.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

The heart was made to be broken.

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

I don't think you can ever return, really.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going