David Levithan: Quotes about love

David Levithan is American author and editor. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

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

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

“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.”

David Levithan

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

David Levithan

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“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.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“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.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”

David Levithan

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

David Levithan

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”

David Levithan

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.

I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good…. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

David Levithan

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“.

At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him." "Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day