Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”

— David Levithan

302. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

305. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

307. “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

308. “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.”

— David Levithan

309. “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

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

— David Levithan

311. “It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This should not happen to you. Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren’t. You should never feel doomed.”

— David Levithan

312. “One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.”

— David Levithan

313. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

316. “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

317. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

319. “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.”

— David Levithan

320. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

322. “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.”

— David Levithan

323. “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.”

— David Levithan

324. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

326. “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.”

— David Levithan

327. “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.”

— David Levithan

328. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

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

— David Levithan

331. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

333. “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.”

— David Levithan

334. “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.”

— David Levithan

335. “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.”

— David Levithan

336. “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.”

— David Levithan

337. “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.”

— David Levithan

338. “I don’t have the heart to tell him that’s the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

343. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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345. “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.”

— David Levithan

346. “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?”

— David Levithan

347. “Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that’s okay, because you don’t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there’s the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won’t change.”

— David Levithan

348. “Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

— David Levithan

349. “I don’t get this at all. It’s like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.”

— David Levithan

350. “I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope’s disappointment.”

— David Levithan