The Lover's Dictionary Quotes

#1. If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

Danielle LaPorte

#2. Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

#3. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance...

David Whyte

#4. Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.

David Levithan

#5. I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

Martha Plimpton

#6. But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

David Levithan

#7. A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.

Deb Caletti

#8. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

David Levithan

#9. Elliptical, adj.
The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

David Levithan

#10. Commonplace, adj.
... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on.

David Levithan

#11. You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

Jackie Morris

#12. I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.

Collette West