Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there’s no light in the room.”

— David Levithan

203. “When the shock wears off, you always hope there’s understanding underneath.”

— David Levithan

204. “You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”

— David Levithan

205. “Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”

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206. “When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.”

— David Levithan

207. “And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn’t. Or I feel it, and she won’t.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

209. “We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”

— David Levithan

210. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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

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215. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

218. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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221. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

223. “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.”

— David Levithan

224. “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?”

— David Levithan

225. “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.”

— David Levithan

226. “It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that’s always the case. My life doesn’t add up to anything.”

— David Levithan

227. “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.”

— David Levithan

228. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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231. “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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232. “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.”

— David Levithan

233. “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.”

— David Levithan

234. “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.”

— David Levithan

235. “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.”

— David Levithan

236. “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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237. “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.”

— David Levithan

238. “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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239. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

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

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243. “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:.”

— David Levithan

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

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245. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

247. “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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248. “There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”

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249. “I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”

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

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