David Levithan Quotes - Page 12

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• Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

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  Years, Moments, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

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  Light, Air, Different

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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  Breathe, Ability, Asthma

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

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  Kissing, Littles, Sides

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

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  Believe, Home, Parent

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• 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.

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  Doors, Adjectives, Nouns

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

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  Choices, Storm, Landscape

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.26, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

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  Way, Let Me

  David Levithan (2008). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

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  Lines, Conversation, Single Line

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.185, Penguin

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• instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

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  Girl, Names, Rainbow

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.156, Penguin

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• Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

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  Air, Desire, Weight

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

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  Taken, Order, People

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.92, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Anger, Feelings, Left Alone

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

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• 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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  Perfect, Different, Feels

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• Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

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  Senior, Years, Missing

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

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  Kissing, Sin, Condemnation

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.223, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

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  Wish, Done, Able

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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• You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

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  Sleep, Order, Thorns

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.150, Penguin

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• Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

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  Order, Law, Tvs

  "Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story". Book by David Levithan, March 17, 2015.

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• You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

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  Coffee

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• "I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

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  Sex, Night, Gone

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.37, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

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  People, Adjectives, Used

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.

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  Mom, Boys, Ohio

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.22, Penguin

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• me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

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  Mom, Ex Boyfriend, Three

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.125, Penguin

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• need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

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  Needs, Bases

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.154, Penguin

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