Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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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402. “After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.”

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

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405. “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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406. “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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407. “I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn’t matter.”

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408. “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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409. “Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.”

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”

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

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

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

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

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418. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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

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

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

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

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426. “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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427. “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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428. “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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429. “Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?”

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

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433. “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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434. “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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435. “Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together.”

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436. “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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437. “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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438. “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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439. “This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don’t Dance” in High School Musical 2.”

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

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442. “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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443. “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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444. “Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.”

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445. “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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446. “It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.”

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447. “What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person’s heartbeat beside him?”

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

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449. “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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450. “They defy gravity, as good books should.”

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