Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?”

— David Levithan

402. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

404. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

406. “You will always be my always.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

412. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

416. “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.”

— David Levithan

417. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

419. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

423. “I can tell there are lots of thoughts she’s considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.”

— David Levithan

424. “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.”

— David Levithan

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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

429. “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.”

— David Levithan

430. “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.”

— David Levithan

431. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

— David Levithan

432. “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?”

— David Levithan

433. “Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that’ll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.”

— David Levithan

434. “There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.”

— David Levithan

435. “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.”

— David Levithan

436. “But I had a feeling I wasn’t supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

438. “A mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making.”

— David Levithan

439. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

444. “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.”

— David Levithan

445. “They defy gravity, as good books should.”

— David Levithan

446. “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.”

— David Levithan

447. “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?”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

449. “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.”

— David Levithan

450. “I am here because of love.”

— David Levithan