David Levithan Quotes About Exes

Quotes about: Exes

• this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

  David Levithan

  Break Up, Two, People

• me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

  David Levithan

  Mom, Ex Boyfriend, Three

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.125, Penguin

• Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

  David Levithan

  Girlfriend, Kissing, Thinking

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.

  David Levithan

  Clever, Boys, Love Is

  "John Green and David Levithan". Interview with Kate Pritchard, bookpage.com. April 2010.

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