Instead I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it’s the whole them we’re seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you’re only seeing half the face.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
This is the thing they don’t tell you about being a third wheel—it’s not like you’re the wheel that’s added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you’re not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
When you say someone looks “haunted,” it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the ghost or about the person who’s seen the ghost. The expression is the same. It’s a sudden constant death, and the haunting comes from the surprise.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
Empty but not void. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty—with empty, you are aware of what’s supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
My thoughts always exist within a windstorm; they have to be strongly rooted in order to stay.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
