Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.”

— David Levithan

302. “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

303. “When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”

— David Levithan

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

310. “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

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

— David Levithan

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

317. “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

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

— David Levithan

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

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

— David Levithan

324. “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

325. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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333. “We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that’s not true. Things are not magical because they’ve been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them, and then deem them so.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “There’s no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it’s in a flash or long after you’ve begged it to stop.”

— David Levithan

340. “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

341. “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

342. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

346. “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

347. “Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it’s distant.”

— David Levithan

348. “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

349. “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

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

— David Levithan