Quotes by David Levithan

About David Levithan:

David Levithan is an American young-adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
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The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

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The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

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Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

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I wake up. Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It’s not just the body—opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I’m fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth....

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

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We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

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I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

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Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

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It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences...

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There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

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Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house,...

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Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black dog. For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the right metaphor. She is surrounded by it, immersed within it, and there is no obvious way out. What she needs to do is try to contain it...

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

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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.

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The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

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I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air.

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We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

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I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, ...

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I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

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Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Levithan
  • DescriptionAmerican author and editor
  • BornSeptember 7, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksBoy Meets Boy; Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award