We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Well, I agree that ‘trial and error’ is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that’s what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it’s not just try-error....

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

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

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I...

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster,...

In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you...

I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things,...

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of...

In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass—rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual...

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”-David Levithan (Every Day)

happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

You don’t realize – the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I’m not complaining. the more things change,the more they don’t stay the same. Don’t let anyone tell...

Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.