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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happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

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I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I fo...

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I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

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After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

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When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a ...

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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it ...

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They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the...

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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.

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Quería que el amor lo conquistase todo. Pero el amor no puede conquistarlo todo. No puede hacerlo todo por sí solo. Ha de confiar en que seamos nosotros quienes conquistamos por él

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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, ...

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I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

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It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

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What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on...

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Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

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It’s hard being in the body of someone you don’t like, because you still have to respect it.

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One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again 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 any...

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The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

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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