Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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.”

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352. “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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353. “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.”

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354. “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.”

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

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

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358. “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.”

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359. “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.”

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

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361. “I am three notes in the middle of a song.”

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362. “No more looking at a wall and pretending it’s a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.”

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363. “His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

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364. “Don’t get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”

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365. “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.”

— David Levithan

366. “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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367. “Things are not magical because they’ve been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”

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368. “This isn’t even something I’ve feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.”

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369. “He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.”

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370. “This is what my voice sounds like I don’t need to be talking to someone else To hear it.”

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371. “I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we’ve somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what’s happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn’t matter if it’s real or not.”

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372. “Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.”

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373. “The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.”

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

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375. “I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I’m starting to figure out who I want to be.”

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376. “There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.”

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377. “You’re giving up. You’re slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it’s all about you again. But it’s not all about you. Love doesn’t work that way.”

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378. “I’ve worn black today, because I’ve heard so often that it’s supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.”

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379. “Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.”

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380. “Dumbfounded adj. And still for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we’re together. That someone like me could find someone like you – it renders me wordless.”

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381. “We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.”

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382. “What I really want, and what I never get – is to be appreciated.”

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383. “My life changes all the time, but books don’t change. My reading of them changes – I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you’ve been before, and it welcomes you back.”

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384. “This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

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385. “Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.”

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386. “Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”

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387. “After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.”

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388. “I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books – used we call them, in a way that we’d never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly.”

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389. “To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it – he wonders what that means.”

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390. “Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?”

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391. “When it comes to true dance, it’s not about how you look, it’s all about the joy you feel.”

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392. “I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can’t really love anyone more.”

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393. “I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn’t matter.”

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394. “We were walking home late from a bar – and the term walking is used loosely here, because you were doing something between a skip and a stumble – and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.”

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395. “But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn’t want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn’t want to tell Lily that I felt we’d all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.”

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396. “You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I’m still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.”

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397. “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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398. “The laws of gravity vary from city to city. In Venice, the laws state that no matter where you want to go, you will always be drawn back to ST. Mark’s Square. Even though you know it will be immensely crowded, and even though you have nothing in particular to do there, you will still feel yourself drawn.”

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399. “After all, people are always separable.”

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400. “In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”

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