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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, . And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we’re together. That someone like me could findsomeone like you — it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck...

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So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and wait...

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I will be the one to leave you.

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If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

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flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it...

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It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly thought... it was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and the only thing this sound could make me...

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. I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrat...

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The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

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I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

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It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

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There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

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the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

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I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is stan...

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

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No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.

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Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

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I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

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If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

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Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.

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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