Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

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

— David Levithan

453. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

456. “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

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

— David Levithan

458. “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

459. “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

460. “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

461. “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

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

— David Levithan

463. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

466. “I can tell there are lots of thoughts she’s considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.”

— David Levithan

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

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468. “Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.”

— David Levithan

469. “I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”

— David Levithan

470. “And I’m moved, it’s so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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475. “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.”

— David Levithan

476. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

480. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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484. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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487. “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

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

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

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

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

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

— David Levithan

493. “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

494. “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.”

— David Levithan

495. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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496. “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

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

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498. “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

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

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

— David Levithan