David Levithan Quotes

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“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”

“this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.”

“It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.”

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”

“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.”

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing”

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

“These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.”

“gravity, n.

I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”

“He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.”

“Make more than dust.”

“barfly n.
You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”

“Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.”

“You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.”

“What I learned

The well-documented difference
Between alone and lonely
The comfort of knowing”

“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”

“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.”

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

“I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

“After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.”

“Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.”

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

“This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.”

“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.”

“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”

“Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”

“seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope”

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

“We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.”

“I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”

“And who am I to blow against the wind?”

“I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.”

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”