David Levithan Quotes

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find.

I think it's very important for young women, young people and older people as well, to know that love is important, but it's also important to find a partner who respects you and loves you the way you deserve to be treated.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.

I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear you'll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

Family is so important and I think that is what you are doing in a relationship - you are in one way or another creating a family. And if you don't have a solid base for that, then it is never going to work.

I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.

I always think that if I'm with somebody, they're better than me. That's why I love them. They're amazing.

Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.