David Levithan Quotes - Page 18

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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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• 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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• 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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• Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

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  Song, Mean, Creating

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.133, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

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  Satisfaction, Unfair, Break

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.61, Egmont UK

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• You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

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  Girl, Real, Boys

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

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  Trying, Pieces, Gaps

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

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  Want, Lovable, Good Place

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.157, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

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  Home, School, Mines

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.151, Penguin

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• It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

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  Memories, Games, Play

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• There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

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  Self, Worry, Lost

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• I think they have compatible silences.

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  Thinking, Silence, Compatible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They defy gravity, as good books should.

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  Book, Good Book, Should

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

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  Hate, Lying, Cutting

  "Fictional character: Kat Stratford". "10 Things I Hate About You", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

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  Moments, Heartbeat, Skip

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

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  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

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  Years, Moments, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

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  Stupid, Eye, World Love

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• teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

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  Teacher, Teenager, School

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