Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.”

— David Levithan

102. “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.”

— David Levithan

103. “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

104. “You know there’s no such thing as a complete lie. There’s always some truth in there.”

— David Levithan

105. “I try to convince myself that it’s the alcohol talking. But alcohol can’t talk. It just sits there. It can’t even get itself out of the bottle.”

— David Levithan

106. “Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.”

— David Levithan

107. “You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

— David Levithan

108. “He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”

— David Levithan

109. “I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

— David Levithan

110. “Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.”

— David Levithan

111. “This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility.”

— David Levithan

112. “What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing.”

— David Levithan

113. “No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”

— David Levithan

114. “The world, right now, is only us.”

— David Levithan

115. “Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you’re becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.”

— David Levithan

116. “Make more than dust.”

— David Levithan

117. “Maybe there’s a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.”

— David Levithan

118. “Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

— David Levithan

119. “Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it’s so fleeting.”

— David Levithan

120. “I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.”

— David Levithan

121. “I don’t want to be the strong one, but I don’t want to be the weak one, either.”

— David Levithan

122. “What a strange phrase – –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

— David Levithan

123. “Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

— David Levithan

124. “Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it’s trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

— David Levithan

125. “That’s the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.”

— David Levithan

126. “I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

— David Levithan

127. “There is nothing more painful than watching someone give up on you.”

— David Levithan

128. “The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. 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

129. “The words that matter always stay.”

— David Levithan

130. “The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance.”

— David Levithan

131. “Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.”

— David Levithan

132. “My mother said I should have a ‘change of scenery.’ The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.”

— David Levithan

133. “It hurts that I can be so full of him while he’s so empty of me.”

— David Levithan

134. “I guess I don’t believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don’t see why they have to be hard.”

— David Levithan

135. “It’s the way you say thank you like you’re genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.”

— David Levithan

136. “This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

— David Levithan

137. “This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.”

— David Levithan

138. “We switch to another language – not our invented language or the language we’ve learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”

— David Levithan

139. “People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying. Even if their expectations aren’t correct, their instincts are. You won’t get everything right, the trying is what matters.”

— David Levithan

140. “Try to capture what it’s like to have never squeezed yourself into the shape of someone else’s expectations.”

— David Levithan

141. “There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it’s a bearable one.”

— David Levithan

142. “Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

— David Levithan

143. “I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me, A. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”

— David Levithan

144. “I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.”

— David Levithan

145. “Don’t underestimate the gift of someone who smiles every time they see you.”

— David Levithan

146. “In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.”

— David Levithan

147. “A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.”

— David Levithan

148. “Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It’s not like a puzzle piece where there’s an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.”

— David Levithan

149. “You can’t know what it is like for us now – you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can’t know what it was like for us then – you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.”

— David Levithan

150. “I can see that the sadness has returned. And it’s not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

— David Levithan