Top 100 David Levithan Love Quotes
#1. Abyss, n.
There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.
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#2. We have fallen through the surface and are deep in the trenches of need
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#3. Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
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#4. At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.
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#5. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that. I honestly believe that. I think we saw the way humanity works on that day, and while some of it was horrifying, so much of it was good.
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#6. It's assumed we'll be giving a present together
that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.
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#7. That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.
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#8. 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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#9. Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.
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#10. Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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#11. If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
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#12. 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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#13. But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
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#14. And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way.
Some of us applaud. Others look away, because it hurts too much.
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#15. You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
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#16. Bianca: There's a difference between like and love. I like my Sketchers. But I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity: But I love my Sketchers.
Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.
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#18. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that all.'
'You really think love needs to have a future?'
'Absolutely.
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#19. Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.
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#20. To get something, you must give something away.
To hold something, you must give something away.
To love something, you must give something away.
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#21. The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.
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#22. You want to be single?
I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like you were unattached to anyone, unconnected to anything. I preferred the term singular. As in individual.
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#23. 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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#24. People say you should wait to be with someone you love, but I think it's more important to be with someone you like.
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#25. But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet-
John Green
#26. I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye.
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#27. Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
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#28. I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.
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#29. 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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#30. Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
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#31. Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other.
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#32. 'I'm sorry,' he says. 'I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.'
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#33. This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life
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#34. 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.
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#36. She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.
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#37. How to Be Alone
Remember that at any given moment
There are a thousand things
You can love
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#39. I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.
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#40. Now I just want it to end. I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.
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#41. This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
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#42. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.
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#43. You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.
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#45. We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.
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#46. But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of love.
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#47. Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
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#48. She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
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#49. My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.
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#50. The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts.
But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.
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#51. Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
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#52. And when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.
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#53. 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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#54. When you're in high school, love is rare and like is enjoyable, so you just take what you can get.
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#55. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
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#57. When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.
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#58. Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?
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#59. We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.
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#60. Breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath.
I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.
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#61. I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
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#62. If I woke up in a different body every day
if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow
would you still love me?
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#63. You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
- Tiny Cooper
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#64. Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.
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#66. Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?
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#67. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.
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#68. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan)
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#69. Eyes bloodshot, I want to say. Eating a lot of Cheetos. Staring into space. Eating more
Cheetos. It must be love. What else could it possibly be?
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#71. Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.
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#72. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
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#73. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.
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#74. She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
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#75. 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.
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#76. (well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)
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#77. Love is so painful, how could you wish it on anybody?
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#78. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.
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#79. I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
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#80. I love you," she says.
"I love you," I say.
And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that.
I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense.
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#81. You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?
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#82. I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him.
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#83. They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.
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#84. We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
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#86. That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors.
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#87. Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.
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#89. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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#90. That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.
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#91. Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.
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#92. Falling in love with someone doesn't
mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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#93. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.
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#94. Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be
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#96. Haul, v.: Yes, love will bend you over, make you strain. That is the burden of having something worth carrying forward.
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#98. There is always something new to learn about the person you love.
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#99. Better, adj. and adv.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
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#100. I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up.
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