David Levithan Quotes - Page 14

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• I am here because of love.

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  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.151, Egmont UK

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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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• You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

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  Fall, Effort, Trying

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

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  Dream, Kissing, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

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  Mind, Impulse, One Word

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.76, Egmont UK

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• It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

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  Secret

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.90, Egmont UK

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• The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

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  Minutes

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.56, Egmont UK

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• Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

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  Dark, Scary, Enlightenment

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

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• I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Bye, Good Bye

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• Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

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  Hate, Mind, Able

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• But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

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  Real, Want, Matter

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

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  Long, Firsts, Someday

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

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  Long, Hanging On, Realizing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

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  Believe, Fate, Serendipity

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.61, Egmont UK

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• There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

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  Relationship, Missing, Said

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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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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• no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

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  Sleep, Night, Want

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

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  Wrong Person, Deals, Fear Of Being Alone

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

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  Knows

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.7, 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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• I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

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  Real, Kids, Keys

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

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• I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

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  Girl, Want, Hiding

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

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  Perseverance, Challenges, Way

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.

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  People, Ends, Seeing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.94, Egmont UK

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• I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

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  Dream, Breathing, Breathe

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.117, Egmont UK

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