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

452. “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

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

— David Levithan

454. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

457. “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

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

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459. “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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460. “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

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

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462. “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

463. “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

464. “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

465. “A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.”

— David Levithan

466. “I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

— David Levithan

467. “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

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

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

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470. “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

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

— David Levithan

472. “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

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

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474. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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

— David Levithan

480. “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

481. “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

482. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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483. “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

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

— David Levithan

485. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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

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490. “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

491. “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

492. “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

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

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

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

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496. “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.”

— David Levithan

497. “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

498. “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

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

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

— David Levithan