Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

— David Levithan

252. “Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.”

— David Levithan

253. “You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don’t tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can’t get it off.”

— David Levithan

254. “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?”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

256. “When distractions are manifold, it’s best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.”

— David Levithan

257. “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.”

— David Levithan

258. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

260. “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.”

— David Levithan

261. “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.”

— David Levithan

262. “It’s goodbye to some things. And hello to others.”

— David Levithan

263. “This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.”

— David Levithan

264. “But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

— David Levithan

265. “My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.”

— David Levithan

266. “I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.”

— David Levithan

267. “All this hoping for something- or someone- that’s maybe hopeless. I’m having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I’m even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don’t like a lot of it.”

— David Levithan

268. “In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it’s supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don’t we have to forget some of it? Don’t we have to forget this feeling? If we don’t, how will we live?”

— David Levithan

269. “The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.”

— David Levithan

270. “It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn’t be torn if the pages all held together.”

— David Levithan

271. “It doesn’t feel like a date. It doesn’t feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn’t yet hit the net.”

— David Levithan

272. “I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.”

— David Levithan

273. “Pink is female – but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It’s something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”

— David Levithan

274. “You can be naked with someone and remain unknowable. You can be someone’s secret without ever knowing what the full secret is. You can know he’s even more scared than you are, but that doesn’t make you any less scared yourself.”

— David Levithan

275. “Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...”

— David Levithan

276. “There is always something new to learn about the person you love.”

— David Levithan

277. “A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. “All I want is you” is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”

— David Levithan

278. “We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

— David Levithan

279. “When someone breaks up with you, their beauty – which you took such satisfaction in – suddenly becomes unfair.”

— David Levithan

280. “It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strenght, it was taken from us.”

— David Levithan

281. “Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.”

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282. “And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

— David Levithan

283. “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”

— David Levithan

284. “I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I’m seeing we don’t live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It’s an infinite playlist.”

— David Levithan

285. “There was a time before you but I can’t remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I’m sure I lived without you but I don’t remember how can’t imagine living without these feelings you’ve produced.”

— David Levithan

286. “There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

— David Levithan

287. “Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don’t have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. 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

288. “There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.”

— David Levithan

289. “My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”

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290. “I don’t understand how it’s possible to know you have a good life, but still be missing out on it. I don’t understand why I won’t let myself give in to what I have. It’s good. What I have is good.”

— David Levithan

291. “I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we’re all going to do next. But I’m worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don’t believe in God Bless America. I don’t believe a higher power is standing beside us and guiding us. I don’t believe we’re being singled out. I believe much more in United We Stand. I have my doubts, but I want it to be true.”

— David Levithan

292. “We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”

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293. “There are boys so enraptured by love that they can’t get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can’t stop picking at their pain.”

— David Levithan

294. “The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.”

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295. “Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.”

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296. “The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.”

— David Levithan

297. “Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

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298. “We walk into a bar, and you’re aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I’m aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.”

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299. “Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”

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300. “For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

— David Levithan