As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

— David Levithan

Avery doesn’t know what these people are talking about, and since he’s driving, he can’t go online to check. The sensation he has is a strange, difficult one. He knows these people aren’t talking about him. But at the same time they are talking about him, in their blanket dismissal. And they’re also talking about us. Because so many of them are our age or older, stuck in previous decades of thought. The gays of today, the gays of yesterday—we’re all the same bother, all the same wrong. Not people, really. Just something to yell about.

— David Levithan

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

— David Levithan

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

— David Levithan

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

— David Levithan

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

— David Levithan

Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

— David Levithan

Boomer took bites of all six varieties, contemplating each one and "during out the order in which he would then eat them. “I like the brown one and the lighter brown one and the almost-brown one. I’m not so sure about the minty one. But really, I think the lebkuchen spice one is the best.”“The what?”“The lebkuchen spice one.” He held it up for me. “This one.”“You’re making that up. What’s a lebkuchen spice? It sounds like a cross between a Feebler elf and a stripper. Hello, my name lebkuchen Spice, and I want to show you my cooooookies...”“Don’t be rude!” Boomer protested. As if the cookie might be offended.

— David Levithan

Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations.

— David Levithan

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty at this moment. In every moment.

— David Levithan