David Levithan Quotes - Page 23

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• Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

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  Tests, Love Someone

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• When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

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  Love You, Mean, Sleep

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, 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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• 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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• He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

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  Thinking, Clouds, Stronger

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• As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

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  Sickness, Moments, Trade

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.161, Egmont UK

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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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• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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  Simple, Complicated, True Things

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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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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• How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

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  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

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  Looks, Want, Words You Say

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

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  Names, Shapes, Ask Me

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The world, right now, is only us.

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  World, Right Now

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

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• This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

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  Attachment, Giving, Doubt

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

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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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• I have become very good at clearing histories.

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  Very Good, Clearing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

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  Traps, Lifeless, Seems

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

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  Years, Paper, Written

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

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  Fall, Heart, Messages

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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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• 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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• That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

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  Night, Doe, Ends

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• it's gonna hurt because it matters.

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  Hurt, Hipster, Matter

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.142, Penguin

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• I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

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  Beautiful, Sadness, Clay

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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