David Levithan Quotes

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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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• Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

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  Getting What You Want, Figures, Difficult

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

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  Dance, Joy, Looks

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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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• 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 anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

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  Thinking, People, Devil

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

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• Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

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  Mean, Missing, Vacuums

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.21, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

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  Bad Day, New Day, One Day

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

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  Wiser You, Use, Wiser

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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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• Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.

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  Girl, Airplane, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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