David Levithan Quotes - Page 23

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• The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

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  Years, World, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.200, 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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• He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.

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  Thinking, Worthy, Prove It

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.191, Egmont UK

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• This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

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  Character, Reality, Giving

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• ... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

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  Book, Together, Might

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

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  Mean, Talking, Should Have

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• If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

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  World, Knows, Ifs

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

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  Body, Our Love, Reason

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

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  Book, Important, Liberty

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

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  Kissing, Sin, Condemnation

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.223, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

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  Coffee

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• "I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

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  Sex, Night, Gone

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.37, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

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  Honesty, Mean, Lilies

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

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  Sex, Realizing, I Realized

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

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  Mind, Want, Stories

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• One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

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  Play, Differences, My Best Friend

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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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• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

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  Hands, Years, Feelings

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• I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

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  Character, Groups, Matter

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• Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

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  Scary, Musical, Obsessed

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• People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

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  Games, People, Vampire

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

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  Song, Life Changing, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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