David Levithan Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

  David Levithan

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

• Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

  David Levithan

  Long, People, Esoteric

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

  David Levithan

  Two, Giving, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

• I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

  David Levithan

  Swimming, Cadence, Language

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.44, Macmillan

• I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Talking, Games

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.26, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.114, 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

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