Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.”

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303. “The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.”

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304. “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.”

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305. “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.”

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306. “I know there’s a twisted code of honor about never tattling on another student, never speaking up against someone who’s done you wrong. I know I will only make it worse by breaking this code. But the code of honor was written by bullies for the protection of bullies, and I don’t want to follow it.”

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307. “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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308. “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.”

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309. “I can take everything on her face at face value, and that’s valuable in a friend.”

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310. “She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.”

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311. “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.”

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312. “It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don’t want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.”

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313. “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.”

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

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315. “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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316. “But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

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317. “After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.”

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318. “I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can’t tell. The thermometer says I’m normal, but I’m clearly not.”

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319. “I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.”

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320. “There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.”

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321. “I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.”

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322. “Every single answer starts with the phrase ‘I don’t know.’ But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.”

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323. “We didn’t believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”

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324. “But whether or not you are here, you are here – because these words are for you, and they wouldn’t exist if you weren’t here in some way.”

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

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326. “But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I’d never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn’t known how to find.”

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327. “Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

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328. “I wonder if it’s possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

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329. “I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn’t want anything. And I told you I wasn’t planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”

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330. “I’m a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.”

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331. “But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

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332. “Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other’s names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don’t know?”

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333. “I have taken advantage of other people’s weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

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334. “Most of the time when we think we’re looking for death, we’re really looking for love.”

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335. “I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?”

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336. “Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.”

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337. “Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be.”

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338. “By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.”

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339. “Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.”

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340. “Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.”

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341. “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. So much of the information we received was ephemeral – pixels on screen, words passing in the air. But here I felt that thoughts had weight.”

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342. “And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.”

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343. “With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.”

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344. “The car can smile all it wants, but that doesn’t mean you can see the driver’s expression.”

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345. “I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything.”

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346. “Don’t get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They’re not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?”

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347. “Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.”

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348. “I felt there was a piece of me missing, a piece that had become so unnerved that it fell away without me feeling it. I didn’t even know what piece it was-I just felt the gap, and knew that whatever it was, it must have been important.”

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349. “Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.”

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350. “I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn’t miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.”

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