David Levithan Quotes - Page 17

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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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• All I get is tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

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  Heart, Leave Me Alone, Ashes

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

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  Air, Two, People

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• I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

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  Love You, Zara, Giving

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.182, Egmont UK

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• When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

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  First Love, Love Is, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.191, Egmont UK

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• I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

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  Mistake, Should, Bigs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

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  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, 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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• 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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• It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

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  Lonely, Body, Betrayed

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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• He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

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  Eye, Loss, Upset

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.160, Egmont UK

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• i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

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  Flirty, Phones, Soul

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• having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

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  Thinking, Way, Rooms

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture.

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  Fall, Kissing, Track

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.55, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

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  Forever, Desire, Goes On

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• Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

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  Eye, Night, Forever

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

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  Doe, Want

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

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  Decision, Get Better, Belief

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

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  Order, Needs, Feels

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• I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

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  Who I Am, Ideas, Want

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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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