Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don’t acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

— David Levithan

52. “I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.”

— David Levithan

53. “The clock always ticks. There are times you don’t hear it, and there are times that you do.”

— David Levithan

54. “Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn’t entirely grounded in your own mind.”

— David Levithan

55. “If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.”

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56. “Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”

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57. “Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”

— David Levithan

58. “Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”

— David Levithan

59. “Ik verbaas me altijd over mensen die weten dat iets fout is, maar dat proberen te negeren, alsof het foute daardoor zou verdwijnen.”

— David Levithan

60. “Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

— David Levithan

61. “Without you I wouldn’t have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You’re the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.”

— David Levithan

62. “Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.”

— David Levithan

63. “The way you’re singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don’t know But I’m noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don’t know But I’m noticing.”

— David Levithan

64. “Life goes on. Get over it. You’re still young. It’ll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.”

— David Levithan

65. “I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.”

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66. “And who am I to blow against the wind?”

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67. “Its a fine line between love and stalking.”

— David Levithan

68. “Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”

— David Levithan

69. “The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”

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70. “When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

— David Levithan

71. “It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

— David Levithan

72. “This is the thing they don’t tell you about being a third wheel – it’s not like you’re the wheel that’s added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you’re not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”

— David Levithan

73. “I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you.”

— David Levithan

74. “I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.”

— David Levithan

75. “I am learning that a life isn’t real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

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76. “I feel my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. But talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.”

— David Levithan

77. “I’m not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone.”

— David Levithan

78. “Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you’re breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.”

— David Levithan

79. “I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.”

— David Levithan

80. “I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

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81. “Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”

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82. “Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.”

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83. “People take love’s continuity for granted, just as they take their body’s continuity for granted. They don’t realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it’s an added foundation to your life.”

— David Levithan

84. “It’s as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”

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85. “If I’m not telling you something, it’s for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn’t mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn’t work like that.”

— David Levithan

86. “But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that’s a bad way to live your life. Because you’re not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we’ve learned that, we’ll be better.”

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87. “Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?”

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88. “I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don’t realize you’re on the floor.”

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89. “We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That’s all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”

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90. “I still felt fondness for her – fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.”

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91. “Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

— David Levithan

92. “Maybe, it’s not the distance that’s the problem, but how you handle it.”

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93. “And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn’t make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

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94. “Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.”

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95. “You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?”

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96. “That’s what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”

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97. “How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.”

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98. “If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.”

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99. “We’re told that the most powerful words in the world are ‘I love you.’ And while I think those are powerful, I think equally powerful is this phrase: I have started to know you, and I want to know more.”

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100. “If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”

— David Levithan