David Levithan Quotes

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

Love means never having to say you're a zero.

Love is love to me.

My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this 'I want to be a girl' business was, it certainly wasn't about to change that.

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

I will love you unconditionally .

If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.

Yeah, I’ll always be your friend. No matter what you love.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.