Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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.”

— David Levithan

452. “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

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

— David Levithan

454. “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

455. “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

456. “I am here because of love.”

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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

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462. “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

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

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464. “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

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

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

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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

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471. “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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472. “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

473. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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474. “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

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

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476. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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

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481. “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

482. “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

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

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485. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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488. “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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489. “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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490. “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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491. “Even though the own world doesn’t matter to her, she matter to the world.”

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

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493. “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

494. “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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495. “I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

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

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497. “I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all.”

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498. “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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499. “But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.”

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

— David Levithan