David Levithan Quotes - Page 7

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• motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

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  Love You, You Don't Love Me, Motifs

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• I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

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  Thinking, Proud, Fit

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• this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

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  Break Up, Two, People

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• this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

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  Blue, Color, Jeans

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.66, Penguin

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• Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

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  Moving, Bed, Body

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

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  Kindness, Justice, Challenges

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• But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

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  Meaningful, Thinking, Possibility

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

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  Feelings, Doubt, Faces

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

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• You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

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  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.137, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

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  Hopeless Romantic, Way, Possibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.186, Egmont UK

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• Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

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  Book, Waiting, Lines

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

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  Want, Break, Stills

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.73, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

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  Real, Want, Knows

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.59, Egmont UK

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• School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

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  School, Want, Next

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

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• This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

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  Thinking, Differences, People

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.

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  Being Thankful, Steps, Behinds

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

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  Hurt, Monsters, Pouring

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.

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  Successful, Keys, Differences

  "The Lover's Dictionary". Book by David Levithan, www.sfgate.com. 2010.

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• But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.

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  Thinking, Live Your Life, Way To Live

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• When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.

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  Parent, Dawn, Want

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.155, Egmont UK

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• He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

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  People, Attractive

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• But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

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  Thinking, Sparks, Made

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• If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

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  Decision, Made, Paralyzed

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

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  Feelings, Moments, That Moment

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

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  Fighting, Names, Needs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.215, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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