David Levithan Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

  David Levithan

  Flirting, Love Is, Feelings

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.118, Egmont UK

• There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Wonder, Moments

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

• There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

  David Levithan

  Sadness, Feelings, Way

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.162, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.

  David Levithan

  Distance, Feelings, Doe

• And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Feelings, Illusion

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

• I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

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  Strong, Thinking, Bravery

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

• But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Moments, That Moment

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

• there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

  David Levithan

  Vocabulary, Names, Feelings

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Luck, World

• incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

  David Levithan

  Jobs, Voice, Fake

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

• The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Doubt, Faces

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

  David Levithan

  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

• Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Moments, That Moment

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

• We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

  David Levithan

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Talking, Should Have

• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

• 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

  People, Feelings, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Feelings, Connections

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

• I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Feelings, Degrees

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.38, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Letters, Never Forget

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• 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.

  David Levithan

  Song, Life Changing, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

• Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

  David Levithan

  Anger, Feelings, Left Alone

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Teenage, White

• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

  David Levithan

  Hands, Years, Feelings

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