David Levithan Quotes - Page 12

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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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• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

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  Sleep, Feelings, Connections

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

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  Thinking, Ready

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• this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

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  Needs, Courses

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• It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

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  Awkward, Possibility

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

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  Self Esteem, Cutting, Clothes

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

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  People, Trying, Different

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.131, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking, Unhappy

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• I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

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  Stories, Young, Firm

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

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• I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

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  Afar, And Love, Watches

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• He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Ordinary

  Michael Cart, Francesca Lia Block, David Levithan, Ron Koertge, Eric Shanower (2009). “How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

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  Force

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

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  Odds, Order, Eight

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• detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

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  Care, I Care, Detachment

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

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• I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

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  Want, Ridiculous

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• We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

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  Space, Missing, Sound

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

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  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

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  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

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  Real, Giving, Tangible

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

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  Two, Awkward, Stories

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

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  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

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• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

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  Distance, Magic, Amplify

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

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  Needs, Should

  David Levithan (2013). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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