David Levithan Quotes

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

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.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

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

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.

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

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.