David Levithan Quotes - Page 19

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• You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

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  Fall, Sky, Tree

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

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  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

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  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

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  Heart, Sleep, Dark

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick & Norah - Soundtrack einer Nacht”, p.102, cbj Verlag

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• A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

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  Believe, Kissing, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

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  Matter, Possibility, Used

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

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  Mom, Voting, Next

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

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  Love, Wish, Essentials

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

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  Moving, Thinking, Giving

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• My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

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  Hurt, Pride, Together

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.59, Egmont UK

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• To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

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  Fall, Kissing, Speak

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

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  Order, Sound, Venture

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

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• In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

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  Love Is, Desire Love, Desire

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

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  Writing, Character, Two

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.108, Egmont UK

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• That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

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  Responsibility, Air, Dust

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• So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

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  Hurt, Fall, Ready

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• Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

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  Girlfriend, Kissing, Thinking

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

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  Hurt, New Relationship, Wonder

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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  Beautiful, Keys, Together

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

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  Mean, Color, Numbers

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

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  Wonder, Imagine, Gravity

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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• dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

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  Sleep, Night, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• this might be the happy ending without the ending

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  Might, Happy Endings

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

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  Wise, Writing, Mean

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• simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

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  Disgusting, Knows

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