David Levithan Quotes - Page 21

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• incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

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  Jobs, Voice, Fake

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

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  Air, Desire, Weight

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

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  Realizing, Ifs, Masochism

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan

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• Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

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  Rap, Remember, Sheets

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• It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

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  Laughing, Fake, Soul

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• You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.

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  Ifs

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.141, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

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  Ideas, Kind, Worst

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

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  Want, Wants To Be Alone, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

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  Want, Share, Source

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.48, Penguin

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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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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

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  Together, Watches, Our Words

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

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  People, Giving, Advice

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• ...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

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  Sleep, Should Have, Names

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.

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  Moving, Car, Watches

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• yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

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  Perfect, Desire, Belief

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• By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

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  Rooms, Enough, Decided

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.41, Macmillan

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• The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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  Keys, Imbalance

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

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• Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

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  Choices, Found, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

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  Moments, Feels

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

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  Chance, Said, Plans

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.174, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

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  Expectations, Fiction, Stories

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• Fate has a strange way of making plans.

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  Fate, Way, Strange

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

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  New Life, Firsts, Compass

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.67, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?

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  Love You, Kissing, Night

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan

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• Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

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  Ignorance, Knowing, Bliss

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.10, Egmont UK

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