David Levithan Quotes - Page 11

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• His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

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  Wall, Book, Sea

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

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  Together, Watches, Our Words

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• Love is the higher law.

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  Love Is, Law, Higher Law

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.249, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

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  Love Is, Want, Persons

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.152, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

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  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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• I think they have compatible silences.

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  Thinking, Silence, Compatible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

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  Used, Knows, Ifs

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

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• When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

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  Somewhere Else, Want, Persons

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

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  Anger, Feelings, Left Alone

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

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  Years, World, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

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  Perfect, Different, Feels

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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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• breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

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  Kissing, Breathtaking, Moments

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• Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

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  Jesus, Listening, Sin

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

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  Moving, Thinking, Giving

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• Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

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  Hard

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

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  Self, Bookstores, Helping

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

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  Coffee, Justin

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• No funny stuff in here tonight, you understand?” Dash said, “I assure you I could not contemplate any of your so-called funny stuff seeing as how I have no idea why I’m even here.” Mark scoffed. “You bookish little pervert.” “Thank you, sir!” Dash said brightly.

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  Ideas, Tonight, Littles

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• We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.

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  Loneliness, Knowing, Missing

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

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  Dust, Ends, Asks

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

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  Doors, Adjectives, Nouns

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

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  Said, Not Sure

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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