David Levithan Quotes

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

When a woman says the connection is gone, don't tell her how hot she is. A connection is more than someone's appearance.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.