David Levithan Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

  David Levithan

  Love, Running, Kissing

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.79, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

  David Levithan

  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

• I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

  David Levithan

  Running, Winning, Past

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.113, Egmont UK

• Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

  David Levithan

  Running, Children, Breathing

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

• lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

  David Levithan

  Running, Lying, Awake

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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