Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

304. “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

305. “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

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

— David Levithan

307. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

311. “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

312. “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

313. “Because that’s the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

316. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

319. “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

320. “This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

323. “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

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

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325. “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

326. “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

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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.”

— David Levithan

333. “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

334. “Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.”

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335. “I saw his scars – the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he’d survived.”

— David Levithan

336. “The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you’re together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It’s the way you breathe with each other that’s the telltale sign.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

338. “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

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

— David Levithan

340. “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?”

— David Levithan

341. “I can’t pretend to know what love is. It just is.”

— David Levithan

342. “There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be.”

— David Levithan

343. “Just because a person is beautiful doesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t mean that person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t mean they don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

— David Levithan

344. “I did not want the universe’s ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife.”

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345. “I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip.”

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346. “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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347. “Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.”

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348. “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

349. “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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350. “She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.”

— David Levithan