Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.”

— David Levithan

452. “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

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

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

— David Levithan

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.”

— David Levithan

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

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

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459. “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

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

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461. “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

462. “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

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

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464. “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

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

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467. “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

468. “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.”

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469. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

471. “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

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

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473. “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

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

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

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

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478. “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

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

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

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

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483. “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

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

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “A mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making.”

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488. “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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489. “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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490. “I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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