Top 100 Quotes About David Levithan
#1. There is no such thing as a soulmate ... and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
Ely in Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Rachel Cohn
#2. ALSO BY JOHN GREEN Looking for Alaska ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An Abundance of Katherines ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Paper Towns ... ... ... ... ... ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson WITH DAVID LEVITHAN
John Green
#3. (Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
-David Levithan (Every Day)
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#4. -Question: "On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?"- David: "You are just asking me this because I am gay ... What the fuck does that mean?" -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-
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#5. I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John Green
#6. She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.
David Levithan
#7. Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts.
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#8. Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.
It's with Ariel.
"There's no such thing as homework," I said.
"What?"
"I mean, I left it at home.
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#9. 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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#10. I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.
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#11. 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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#12. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.
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#13. 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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#14. It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me.
David Levithan
#15. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.
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#16. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.
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#17. But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.
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#18. I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
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#19. I am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment
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#20. 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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#21. When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
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#22. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.
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#23. 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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#24. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
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#25. But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.
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#26. She caught me looking at her.
'What?' she asked.
'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming.
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#27. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.
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#28. You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
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#29. Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart ...
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#30. Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
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#31. 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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#32. This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.
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#33. He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter.
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#34. But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.
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#35. Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust.
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#36. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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#37. Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
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#39. 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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#40. All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.
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#41. Fuck, I loved her then. And 'then' is blurring into 'now'. I'm thinking 'why not?' I'm thinking 'we're still the same people.
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#42.
like the airwaves were taking a little longer to get here, so we could live in yesterday a little longer, even if it felt wrong.
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#43. I could never be with someone who wasn't excited by rainstorms
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#44. Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
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#45. I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had.
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#46. It's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.
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#47. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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#48. I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.
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#49. 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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#50. How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words written down, not the paper.
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#51. I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.
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#52. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan)
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#53. There's no such thing as ready. There's only willing.
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#55. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
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#57. Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.
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#58. Now I read the updates on her online profile and she read mine, and that's what we were to each other.
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#59. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story but passing by too quickly to notice or understand
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#60. Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.
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#62. With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.
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#63. 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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#64. I have never told anyone the truth. I have never come close.
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#65. We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.
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#66. We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought.
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#67. Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful. You've made it to another day.
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#68. We are face to face with enormity again, but this time we are going to make it through. It is a moment we can get out of. Together.
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#69. When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
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#70. I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.
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#71. The secret to living long is to have something to live for.
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#72. I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things.
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#73. 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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#74. There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.
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#75. Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?
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#76. It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon
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#77. I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.
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#79. School is not like church.
I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this,
but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind
of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.
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#80. We are the time. We are the breathing.
We are the air.
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#81. right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse
right here, I have been turned into nothing
right now, I am negated
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#82. 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.
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#83. These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family.
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#87. The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
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#88. You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
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#89. Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.
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#90. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.
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#91. 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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#92. Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me.
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#93. Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?
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#97. You know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?
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#98. I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
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#99. You can't ask for much more than that - a good woman and a story to tell.
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#100. I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else.
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