Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty – with empty, you are aware of what’s supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

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202. “Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn’t have to reflect reality directly. They love ‘The Hunger Games’ not because it’s real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it’s very relatable.”

— David Levithan

203. “Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn’t have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

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204. “But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.”

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205. “But I guess you don’t see the planets when you’re staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”

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206. “I have always found peace among books.”

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207. “Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.”

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208. “Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.”

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209. “I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”

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210. “It’s only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we’ve already gone too far for that.”

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211. “We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home.”

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212. “In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.”

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213. “You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.”

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214. “Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”

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215. “Maybe that’s what history is, you go from one I can’t believe it the next. And sometimes the I can’t believe its are good, and sometimes they’re bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.”

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216. “Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do.”

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217. “How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

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218. “There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it’s fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.”

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219. “When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

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220. “There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”

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221. “There’s no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.”

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222. “Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”

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223. “We believe in the wrong things, that’s what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

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224. “You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try.”

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225. “I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.”

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226. “If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”

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227. “It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It’s a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.”

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228. “Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper – ripped open once and, there, you’re done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.”

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229. “I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there’s a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.”

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230. “I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”

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231. “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.”

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232. “Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person’s heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.”

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233. “It’s like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait...”

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234. “It will affect me in ways I can’t even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don’t know what to do without music.”

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235. “I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”

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236. “It’s the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.”

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237. “It’s almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.”

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238. “I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”

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239. “I want this world small enough for the two of us I want you to think of me that way I want this world to crash us into marvelous I want you to kiss me and say:.”

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240. “This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.”

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241. “But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it’s death. Anything. Something. Nothing.”

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242. “We think of the boys we kissed, the boys we screwed, the boys we loved, the boys who didn’t love us back, the boys who were with us at the end, the boys who were with us beyond the end. Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

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243. “This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther.”

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244. “She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn’t realize there isn’t anything left to hope for.”

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245. “I’m never going to figure it out, any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.”

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246. “I’ll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.”

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247. “I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”

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248. “This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to – I don’t give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

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249. “Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.”

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250. “How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.”

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