David Levithan Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• 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 wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Fighting, Winning

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

• The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Moving, Fighting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.10, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

  David Levithan

  Fighting, Names, Needs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.215, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.

  David Levithan

  Fighting, Pet, Sake

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

• The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

  David Levithan

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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