David Levithan Quotes - Page 13

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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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• 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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• For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

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  Lovers, Wanted

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

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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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• It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

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  Lying, Faces, Telling The Truth

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

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  Two, Giving, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

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  Strong, Doe, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.172, Macmillan

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• What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

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  Lying, People, Phrases

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.126, Macmillan

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• After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

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  Long, Unsure

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• I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

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  Love You, Mean, Half

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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• I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.

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  Heartbroken, Names, Numbers

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.107, 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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• If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

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  Zoom, Losing Yourself, Persons

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• Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.

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  Home, Breathing, Phones

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

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  Memories, Long, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

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  Smart, Giving, Use

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

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  Causes, Flaws, Sometimes

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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