Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less?”

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402. “If there wasn’t a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

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

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404. “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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405. “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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406. “After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.”

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

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

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn’t matter.”

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413. “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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414. “I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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424. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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

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

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

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431. “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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432. “I am here because of love.”

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433. “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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434. “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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435. “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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436. “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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437. “If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

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

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

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442. “We’re librarians, sir. And we will not let you check out this future librarian unless your prove to us that you’ll take good care of him when he’s in your home.”

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443. “Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.”

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444. “After that, I promised myself I wouldn’t get into any more virtual entanglements, as easy as they might seem to be. Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?”

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445. “So much happiness can only make me sad.”

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446. “This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don’t Dance” in High School Musical 2.”

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447. “I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole day – a whole week, even – without ever seeing your family. You can maybe say good morning and maybe say good night, but everything in the middle can be left blank.”

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448. “It’s Miranda who speaks up. “You’re gay,” she says, with complete seriousness. “And I love you.”

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449. “I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.”

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450. “If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.”

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