Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

403. “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

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

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

— David Levithan

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

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407. “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

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

— David Levithan

409. “You will always be my always.”

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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

414. “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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415. “You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I’m still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

419. “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

420. “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

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

— David Levithan

422. “I am here because of love.”

— David Levithan

423. “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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

425. “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

426. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

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430. “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

431. “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

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

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433. “I hope suffering don’t exist.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

436. “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

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

— David Levithan

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

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439. “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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440. “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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441. “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

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

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443. “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

444. “There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

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.”

— David Levithan

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

— David Levithan

448. “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.”

— David Levithan

449. “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.”

— David Levithan

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450. “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