David Levithan Quotes - Page 9

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

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  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

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  Real, Giving, Tangible

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

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  Odds, Order, Eight

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• hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

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  Kind, Hubris, Feels

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.

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  Lonely, Talking, Would Be

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• I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

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  Hurt, People, Kind

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.43, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

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  Two, Awkward, Stories

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

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  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

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  Ordinary, Firsts, Remember

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

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  Care, I Care, Detachment

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

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• Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

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  Senior, Years, Missing

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

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  Order, Law, Tvs

  "Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story". Book by David Levithan, March 17, 2015.

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• We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

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  Space, Missing, Sound

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

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  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

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  Flirting, Matter, I Can

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

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  Want, Ridiculous

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• How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

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  Stories, Forgotten, Tombs

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.

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  Lying, Love You, Missing

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

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  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

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  Unimportant Things, Goes On, Able

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• These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

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  Teenager, Forever, Foundation

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

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  People, Adjectives, Used

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

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  Cities, Memorial, Gone

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• I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

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  People, Lessons, Want

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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