David Levithan Want Quotations

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.