Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn’t matter.”

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403. “You will always be my always.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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412. “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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413. “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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414. “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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415. “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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416. “I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.”

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417. “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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418. “In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”

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

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

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

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

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423. “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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424. “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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425. “You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

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426. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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

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

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430. “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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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. “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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434. “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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435. “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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436. “To love – to fall – is not a question. To touch – to kiss – to speak – those are questions.”

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437. “I am here because of love.”

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438. “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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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 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.”

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441. “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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442. “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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443. “So much happiness can only make me sad.”

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444. “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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445. “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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446. “Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together.”

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447. “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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448. “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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449. “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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450. “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.”

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