Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “This isn’t even something I’ve feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.”

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

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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it’s distant.”

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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.”

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365. “The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance.”

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

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

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

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371. “The whole point of love isn’t to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn’t challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn’t to be the other person’s solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have – it’s definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we’re going to do.” -Rhiannon.”

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “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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375. “Don’t get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”

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376. “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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377. “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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378. “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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379. “I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn’t matter.”

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

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382. “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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383. “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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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “After all, people are always separable.”

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

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389. “Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”

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390. “Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.”

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391. “With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.”

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392. “Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals – Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.”

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393. “We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought.”

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394. “You will always be my always.”

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395. “These teenager looks aren’t going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.”

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396. “You have to believe that the opposites reach for each other. I had to understand that when I was thinking I am lost, I was actually finding that I was lost. the two opposite things were true at the same time: found and lost.”

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397. “If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”

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

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399. “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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400. “I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.”

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