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Wide Awake Quotes
The houses have been condemned on Memory LaneI’m tired of this struggle that leaves everything the sameI’ve tried so hard to make it workthat I’m dying insideWell, you can take my pastBut you can’t have my tomorrowPromises that remain promises are useless and they’re cheapI wish I could put a price on words so I could make them keepI put so much faith in youI lost all my faith in meWell, you can take my pastBut you can’t have my tomorrowI’m giving up on giving upI can’t leave it all to prayer‘Cause the first step in getting betteris knowing what’s not thereYou said you’d make it betterand that just makes it worseWell, you can take my pastBut you can’t have my tomorrowYes, I want my life to lastSo you can’t have my tomorrowNo, you can’t have my tomorrow
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
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.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a coma can’t make youforget.
— Shelly Crane, Wide Awake
You don’t realize – the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I’m not complaining. the more things change, the more they don’t stay the same. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once – but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I couldn’t turn it off, but I could forget to turn it on. Gradually, the columns began to tip. I lost track of keeping track. In order to let us be, I let myself be.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don’t fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
It doesn’t matter who you were or what you’ve done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
— Shelly Crane, Wide Awake
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn’t be torn if the pages all held together.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged – and only when you challenge yourself – do you discover what truly matters.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
Because that’s the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
We are not taught “love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours ” or “love thy neighbor unless they don’t make money as you do” or “love thy neighbor unless they don’t share your belies.” We are taught “love thy neighbor”. No exceptions. We are all in this together – every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren’t the only things that get better with age.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
— David Levithan, Wide Awake
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