David Levithan Quotes - Page 16

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• being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

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  Mean, Years, Trapped

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

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  Love You, Important, Deny

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.253, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

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  Together Again, Two, Way

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.170, Penguin

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• People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

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  Life, Memories, People

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.170, Penguin

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• When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

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  Remember, Distraction, Manifold

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.75, Egmont UK

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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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• But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

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  Way, Ifs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.90, 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 immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

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  Said

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.116, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

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  Want, Be Careful, Careful

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

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  Great Aunt, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

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  Games, Gone, Absence

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.180, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

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  Personality, Style, Realizing

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

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  Clothes, Mind, Shapes

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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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• 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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• anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

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  Anchors

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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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• 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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• 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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• All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

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  Believe, Hard Times, Hoping For Something

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, 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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• 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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• 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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