David Levithan Quotes - Page 24

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• Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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  Running, Children, Breathing

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

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  Monday, Morning, Believe

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• It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

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  Sorry, Book, Writing

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

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  Son, Two, People

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

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  Mean, Odds, Trying

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

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  Mother, Father, Fighting

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

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  Special, Watches, World

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

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  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

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  Games, Over You, Facts

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.180, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

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  Together, Way, Moments

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• We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

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  Moving, Mind, Needs

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

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  Gay, Progress, Tiny

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.114, Penguin

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• Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

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  Two, People, World

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• People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

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  Love Is, People, Foundation

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.39, Egmont UK

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• But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

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  Plato, Ideas, Soul

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

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  Two, People, Kind

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• It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

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  Thinking, Attachment, Perception

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

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• Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

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  Memories, Sometimes, Tricks

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

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• It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

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  Feels

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

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  Mittens, Lobster, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

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  New York, Sorry, Cynical

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

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  Sixteen, Hurdle, Appropriate

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

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  Want, Matter

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Twins

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

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  Choices, Storm, Landscape

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.26, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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