David Levithan Quotes - Page 2

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• Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.

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  Girl, Airplane, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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  Kindness, Nice, Character

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

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  Being Ignored, Would Be, Invisibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.78, Egmont UK

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• Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

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  Together, Pieces, Shapes

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

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• Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

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  Love, Eye, Hair

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.181, Egmont UK

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• I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

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  Lonely, Drifters, Term

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

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• The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

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  Falling In Love, Silly, Heart

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

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  First Love, People, Firsts

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.190, Egmont UK

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• The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

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  Wiser You, Use, Wiser

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• People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

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  Eye, Reality, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

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  Laughter, Lasts, Enjoyable

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

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  Kindness, Book, Start The Day

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.218, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.

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  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

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• Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

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  Growing Up, Reality, Mind

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.78, Egmont UK

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• It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

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  When You Love Someone, Reason, Love Someone

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

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  Friendship, Reflection, Self

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.135, Egmont UK

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• I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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  Alternatives, Enough, Used

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• underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

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  Nice, Denial

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.170, Penguin

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• We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

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  Mystery

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.8, Egmont UK

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• What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

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  Lonely, Knowing, Differences

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.184, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

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  Ocean, People, Stories

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

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  Sadness, Ideas, Lost

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

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  Thinking, People, Possibility

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• ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

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  Rain, Make Yourself Happy, Alright

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.94, Egmont UK

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• I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

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  Bridges, Skins, Wanted

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