David Levithan Quotes - Page 20

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• me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

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  Mom, Ex Boyfriend, Three

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.125, Penguin

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• it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.

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  Mom, Boys, Ohio

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.22, Penguin

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• It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

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  Valentine, Usual, Three

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.

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  Dvds, Dying, Next

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.74, Penguin

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• Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

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  Fall, Thinking, Land

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, 2011.

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• It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait.

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  Sexy, Baby, Waiting

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.92, Penguin

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• He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

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  Watches, Rebellion

  David Levithan (2008). “Are We There Yet?”, p.49, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Tricks

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• i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

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  Wish, Done, Able

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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• Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

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• You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

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  Sleep, Order, Thorns

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.150, Penguin

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• We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

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  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

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  Girl, Names, Rainbow

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.156, Penguin

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• Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support.

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  Believe, People, Support

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

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  Easy, Persons, Easy Things

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

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  Doubt, Luck, Together

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

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  Girl, Teenage, White

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• arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

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  Mistake, Would Be, Lapses

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• When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

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  Sleep, Night, Sky

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.102, Egmont UK

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• Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

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  Love, Real, Games

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• Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

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  Character, Emotional, Long

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• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

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  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

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  Real, Being Real, Ends

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.92, Egmont UK

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• Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

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  Stunning, Accidents, Hard

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• I hope suffering don't exist.

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  Suffering

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