David Levithan Quotes - Page 15

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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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• I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

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  Color, Taste, Deeper

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.12, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

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  Trying, Enough, Ifs

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.178, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

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  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said.

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  Country, Mean, Political

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• I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

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  Lasts, Rooms, Hotel

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.174, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

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  Mean, Thinking, Small Acts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

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  Swimming, Cadence, Language

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

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  Simple, Night, Forgotten

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

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  Mines

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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• You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

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  Fall, Night, Phones

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• I would always wait to take you home.

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  Home, Waiting

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• And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

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  Eye, Thinking, Air

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• So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

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  Said, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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• That lasting things do, in fact, last.

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  Lasts, Facts, Lasting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

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  Phones, Long, Waiting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.181, Macmillan

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• As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.

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  Lying, Long, Needs

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

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• Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

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  Way, Let Me

  David Levithan (2008). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

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• We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

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  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

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  Thinking, Matter, Rational

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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