David Levithan: Quotes about people

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“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

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

David Levithan

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“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.”

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

“Neophyte, n.

There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“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

“A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.”

David Levithan

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“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

“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 book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

David Levithan

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“People are always separable.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

David Levithan

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”

David Levithan

Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”

David Levithan book Another Day

Source: Another Day

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

David Levithan book Are We There Yet?

Source: Are We There Yet?

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day