Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “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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404. “After all, people are always separable.”

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

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

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

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

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409. “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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410. “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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411. “I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.”

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412. “You will always be my always.”

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

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415. “It’s you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.”

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416. “How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less?”

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417. “Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.”

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418. “I don’t want to steal anybody’s story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.”

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419. “You shouldn’t have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

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420. “The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.”

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421. “I am here because of love.”

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422. “I don’t think anything can stay,” he tells me. “Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it’s here.”

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423. “How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can’t imagine what your life was like before them.”

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424. “The air feels cleaner because when the world is below we allow ourselves to breathe fully. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.”

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425. “Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before – why is it that no one can give my good advice?”

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426. “You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

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427. “It’s one of the secrets of strength: We’re so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

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428. “When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”

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429. “Because we can’t stop the weltschmerz, we can’t stop imagining the world as it might be. Which is awesome! It is my favorite thing about us!”

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430. “Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”

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431. “It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.”

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432. “I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.”

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433. “To love – to fall – is not a question. To touch – to kiss – to speak – those are questions.”

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434. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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435. “I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

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436. “There are so many words in our language; we get to know so few of them.”

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437. “There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.”

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438. “That has to be what love is – seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you’re a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

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439. “So many of us had to make our own families. So many of us had to pretend when we were home. So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn’t had to. Every single one of us wishes our family had acted like our family, that even when we found a new family, we hadn’t had to leave the other one behind. Every single one of us would have loved to have been loved unconditionally by our parents.”

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440. “That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn’t miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

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441. “There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.”

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442. “A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.”

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443. “I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

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444. “Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.”

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445. “If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

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446. “The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

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447. “Silence equals death, we’d say. And underneath that would be the assumption – the fear – that death equaled silence.”

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448. “Most people, I’ve noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.”

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449. “I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.”

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450. “Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together.”

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