Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “It’s Miranda who speaks up. “You’re gay,” she says, with complete seriousness. “And I love you.”

— David Levithan

452. “If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.”

— David Levithan

453. “So much happiness can only make me sad.”

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454. “So many of us had to make our own families. So many of us had to pretend when we were home. So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn’t had to. Every single one of us wishes our family had acted like our family, that even when we found a new family, we hadn’t had to leave the other one behind. Every single one of us would have loved to have been loved unconditionally by our parents.”

— David Levithan

455. “Most people, I’ve noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.”

— David Levithan

456. “Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together.”

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457. “Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.”

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458. “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.”

— David Levithan

459. “After that, I promised myself I wouldn’t get into any more virtual entanglements, as easy as they might seem to be. Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?”

— David Levithan

460. “Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that’ll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.”

— David Levithan

461. “It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.”

— David Levithan

462. “What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person’s heartbeat beside him?”

— David Levithan

463. “There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.”

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464. “I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.”

— David Levithan

465. “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.”

— David Levithan

466. “I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.”

— David Levithan

467. “We’re librarians, sir. And we will not let you check out this future librarian unless your prove to us that you’ll take good care of him when he’s in your home.”

— David Levithan

468. “They defy gravity, as good books should.”

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469. “If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

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470. “Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.”

— David Levithan

471. “Man kann Worte schenken, aber nicht wegnehmen. Und wenn Worte geschenkt und empfangen werden, dann sind sie etwas Gemeinsames.”

— David Levithan

472. “So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.”

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473. “By losing myself to her, I gain her.”

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474. “There’s something wrong when there’s nothing wrong.”

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475. “My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I’m perpetually surprised, but there’s nothing wrong with me that I can fix.”

— David Levithan

476. “Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.”

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477. “Told her she was beautiful. Didn’t give up when she didn’t believe me.”

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478. “She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”

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479. “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.”

— David Levithan

480. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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481. “I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I’d had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

483. “I don’t want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

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484. “As the two of us – past self, my present self – hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.”

— David Levithan

485. “I’m always standing on the edge of something bad.”

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486. “I like whatever it is that makes you the person you are.”

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487. “This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.”

— David Levithan

488. “Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”

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489. “But have them tell us that every person needs to be with another person in order to be happy, and we nod along like it’s the most obvious thing in the world. But there’s no reason for it, is there? It’s not a proven truth. It’s just some thing that our culture has come to spin itself around, mostly so we’ll procreate, and we’re the dupes who fall for it over and over and over again.”

— David Levithan

490. “Even though the own world doesn’t matter to her, she matter to the world.”

— David Levithan

491. “If we don’t fight other people’s curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where’s the meaning in that?”

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492. “Since Chuck’s a sporting guy, I think it’s only fair that I keep score of his conversation.”

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493. “What i want is for what i want to actually matter.”

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494. “I want to love. I want to love indiscriminately – people, places, and things. But not just those. I want to love verbs. Adjectives. I want to love beyond category. Because, in my heart, I know that’s what I was born to do. And life? Life is just the time I have to figure out how to do it well.”

— David Levithan

495. “I could never be with someone who wasn’t excited by rainstorms.”

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496. “The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.”

— David Levithan

497. “But I had a feeling I wasn’t supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.”

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498. “A mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making.”

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499. “I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.”

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500. “It wouldn’t be fair to ask you to be around me when I’m so sick of being around me.”

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