{"author":"David Levithan","author_id":"David+Levithan","total_quotes":337,"quotes":[{"text":"She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["heart","lost","love"],"id":215,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["self-discovery"],"id":4417,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["ennui","social-media"],"id":4530,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["future","past","present"],"id":4749,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["angst","despair","glbt","young-adult"],"id":4941,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["body","life"],"id":5084,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["heartbreak","love"],"id":5949,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["bravery","courage","inspirational"],"id":6426,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["self-discovery"],"id":8733,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"I stop at the tune store, where I'm greeted by Javier and Jules. Half the store is Javier's, half is Jules's—they have entirely different musical tastes, so you have to know going in whether the tune you're looking for is more like Javier or Jules. They have been together for more than twenty years, and today as they offer me cider and argue the blues, I want to ask them how they've done it. To be together with someone for twenty years seems like an eternity to me. I can't seem to manage twenty days. Twenty weeks would be a stretch. How can they stand there behind the counter, spinning songs for each other day in and day out? How can they find things to say—how can they avoid saying things they'll always regret? How do you stay together? I want to ask them, the same way I want to ask my happy parents, the same way I want to go up to old people and ask them 'what is it like to live so long'?","author":"David Levithan","tags":["inspirational","love","teenagers"],"id":11519,"author_id":"David+Levithan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":337,"pages":34,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}