Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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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402. “After all, people are always separable.”

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403. “Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

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

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

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

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407. “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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408. “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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409. “With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.”

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410. “You will always be my always.”

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411. “These teenager looks aren’t going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.”

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

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

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “You shouldn’t have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

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419. “I am here because of love.”

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420. “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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421. “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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422. “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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423. “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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424. “You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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433. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

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

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

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

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

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443. “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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444. “I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”

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445. “And I’m moved, it’s so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.”

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446. “Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.”

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

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

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