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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We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives. We watch, and t...

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What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consid...

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He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter.

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Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.

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

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The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

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Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

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They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

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What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

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You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.

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Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens of thousands of people will die before drugs are made an...

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Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

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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?

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Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

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What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to conside...

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This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

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Max is a marvel to us. He will never have to come out because he will never have been kept in. Even though he has a mom and a dad, they made sure from the beginning to tell him that it didn't have to be a mom and a dad. It could be a mom and a mom, a...

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As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

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

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We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that’s not true. Things are not magical because they’ve been conjured for us by some outside force. They are m...

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We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

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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