David Levithan Quotes

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• If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

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  Wish, Want, I've Learned

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

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  Life, Long, Secret

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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  Tick, Clock

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.187, Egmont UK

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• Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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  Kindness, Want, Niceness

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK

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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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  Self, Preservation, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.73, Egmont UK

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• Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

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  Love, Remember, Moments

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• Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

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  Moving

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.129, Egmont UK

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• Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

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  Flirting, Love Is, Feelings

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.118, Egmont UK

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• The words that matter always stay.

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  Meaningful, Important, Unspoken Words

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

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  When You Love Someone, Reason, Love Someone

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.46, Egmont UK

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

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  Lonely, Fighting, Winning

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

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• There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

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  Thinking, Moments

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

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  Falling In Love, Mean, How You Feel

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.62, Egmont UK

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• In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

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  Love Is, Desire Love, Individual

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

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  Thinking, Answers, Way

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.126, Egmont UK

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• There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

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  Choices, Bearable

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• I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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  Kindness, Nice, Character

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

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  Believe, Kissing, Laughing

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

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  Ends

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.80, Penguin

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• I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

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  Song, Book, Cities

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK

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• The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

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  Ocean, Wind, Doe

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK

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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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  Being Ignored, Would Be, Invisibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.78, Egmont UK

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• Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

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  Together, Pieces, Shapes

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

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• Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

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  Kindness, Book, Start The Day

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.218, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

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  Love, Eye, Hair

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.181, Egmont UK

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