David Levithan Quotes - Page 11

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• I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

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  Ordinary, Firsts, Remember

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

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  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.

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  Lonely, Talking, Would Be

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• You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

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  Geometric Shapes, Broken, Definitions

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• Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

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  Fractals, Fracture

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

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  Kissing, Littles, Sides

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

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  Believe, Home, Parent

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• hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

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  Kind, Hubris, Feels

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

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  Coffee, Thinking, Two

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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• and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

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  Love You, Needs, Helping

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

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  Vocabulary, Names, Feelings

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

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  People, Lessons, Want

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

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  Flirting, Matter, I Can

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

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  Teenager, Forever, Foundation

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

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  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

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  Feels, Like Something

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.165, Egmont UK

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• ..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

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  Real, Thinking, Trying

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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• I will be the one to leave you.

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  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

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  Getting What You Want, Want, Easier

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.116, Egmont UK

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• I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

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  Quality, Able, Steps

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

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  Pairs, Lovers, Assumption

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.

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  Falling In Love, Thinking, When You Love Someone

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

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• And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

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  Balls, Feels, Shrinks

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.109, Egmont UK

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• I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

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  Light, Air, Different

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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  Breathe, Ability, Asthma

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

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