David Levithan Quotes - Page 15

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• I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

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  Expectations, Fiction, Stories

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• Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

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  Chance, Said, Plans

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

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• It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

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  Moments, Feels

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Tricks

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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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• Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

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  Senior, Years, Missing

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

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  Wish, Done, Able

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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• You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

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  Sleep, Order, Thorns

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.150, Penguin

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• When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

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  Ideas, Numbers, Principles

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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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• Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

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  Use, Spices, Spice Of Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

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  Lying, Sometimes, Placid

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

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  Knowing, Space, Impossible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

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  Strong, Thinking, Bravery

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

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  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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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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• Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

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  Relationship, Distance, Problem

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