David Levithan Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

  David Levithan

  Home, School, Mines

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.151, Penguin

• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

  David Levithan

  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

• aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

  David Levithan

  School, Thinking, Asking

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

• teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Teenager, School

• When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

  David Levithan

  School, Together, Destination

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.156, Egmont UK

• School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

  David Levithan

  School, Want, Next

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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