Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 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.”

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452. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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

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455. “What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person’s heartbeat beside him?”

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456. “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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457. “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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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.”

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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469. “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.”

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470. “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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471. “If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It’s a good place to start.”

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

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473. “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

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

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

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478. “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.”

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

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

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481. “Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.”

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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496. “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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497. “Thoughts can follow you anywhere.”

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498. “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.”

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

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500. “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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