Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.”

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

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453. “The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

— David Levithan

454. “Silence equals death, we’d say. And underneath that would be the assumption – the fear – that death equaled silence.”

— David Levithan

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

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456. “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.”

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

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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?”

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

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461. “This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don’t Dance” in High School Musical 2.”

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462. “I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole day – a whole week, even – without ever seeing your family. You can maybe say good morning and maybe say good night, but everything in the middle can be left blank.”

— David Levithan

463. “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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464. “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

465. “It’s Miranda who speaks up. “You’re gay,” she says, with complete seriousness. “And I love you.”

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466. “I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.”

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467. “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

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

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

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

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471. “Slowly would be better than not at all.”

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472. “He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

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

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474. “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.”

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475. “It won’t be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

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476. “As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it’s the temperature of happiness.”

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

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

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479. “There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.”

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480. “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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481. “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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482. “Man kann Worte schenken, aber nicht wegnehmen. Und wenn Worte geschenkt und empfangen werden, dann sind sie etwas Gemeinsames.”

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

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

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486. “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.”

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

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

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489. “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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490. “I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

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

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

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493. “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.”

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

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

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

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497. “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.”

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498. “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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499. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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500. “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