David Levithan Quotes - Page 3

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• You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

  David Levithan

  Lying, Knows

  John Green, David Levithan (2012). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.197, Penguin UK

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• Slowly would be better than not at all.

  David Levithan

  Would Be

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• She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

  David Levithan

  Care, Carefree

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.49, Egmont UK

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• The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

  David Levithan

  Mistake, Thinking, Antidote

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• This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

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  Two, Important, Wheels

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• And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

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  Deals, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

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  Life, Should Have, Gone

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.108, Egmont UK

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• Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

  David Levithan

  Loss, Becoming, Fractals

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• Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

  David Levithan

  Writing, Love Is, Trying

  "The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel by David Levithan - review" by Nicola Barr, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Thinking, Doe

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• I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

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  Lonely, Past, Views

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

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  Vocabulary, Fleeting

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

  David Levithan

  Get Better, Goes On, Blah

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

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  Imagine

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.162, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

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  Mean, Trust Me, Reason

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

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• I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

  David Levithan

  Talking, Alcohol, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

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  Thinking, Aquariums, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Easy, Don't Believe

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.23, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

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  Trying, Feels

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• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

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  Fall, Stronger, Crowds

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Trying, Want

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

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  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

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  Two, People, Stubborn

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.143, Macmillan

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• I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

  David Levithan

  Love, Want, Conquer

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• But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

  David Levithan

  Sun, Planets, Staring

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.81, Egmont UK

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